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Larry Holmes, Joe Frazier, Michael Spinks and Marvis Frazier. Boxing in the 1980s was filled with important fights, events and personalities that shaped the sport. [1] Boxing in the 1980s was shaped by many different situations, such as the continuous corporate battles between the different world sanctioning organizations, the void left by Muhammad Ali as the sport's ambassador and consequent ...
Boxing magazine The Ring has awarded world championships in men's professional boxing within each weight class from its foundation in 1922 until the 1990s, and again since 2001. In 2019 they began awarding world championships to women, however, the publication did not begin producing monthly female divisional rankings until August 2020.
As professional boxing has four major sanctioning bodies (WBA, WBC, IBF, WBO) each with their own champions, the sport doesn't have a centralized ranking system.The rankings published by these organizations share the trait of not ranking the other organizations' champions, as each one of the sanctioning bodies expects their champion to frequently defend their title against their top-ranked ...
The following is a list of WBA female world champions certificated by the World Boxing Association (WBA). Stand: March 31, 2020. r – Champion relinquished title. s – Champion stripped of title. During the 2009 WBA convention in Colombia, Susi Kentikian was named the first ever WBA female Super Champion. It was announced that this belt would ...
World Boxing Association (WBA), founded in 1921 as the National Boxing Association (NBA); re-named as the WBA in 1962; World Boxing Council (WBC), founded in 1963; International Boxing Federation (IBF), founded in 1983; World Boxing Organization (WBO), founded in 1988; International Boxing Organization (IBO), founded in 1992
2 August 1980 Pipino Cuevas: WBA 2 August 1980 16 September 1981 Thomas Hearns: WBA 16 September 1981 9 November 1982-Retired Sugar Ray Leonard: WBA 13 February 1983 27 September 1986 Donald Curry: WBA 27 September 1986 1987-Vacated Lloyd Honeyghan: WBA 6 February 1987 22 August 1987 Mark Breland: WBA 22 August 1987 29 July 1988 Marlon Starling ...
Yamada submitted a retirement notification to the Japanese Boxing Commission on 31 May 2014. The belt was vacated on the same day. [1] 5 Kumiko Seeser Ikehara: 20 Sep 2014 — 13 Dec 2016 r: 4 Ikehara retired from professional competition on 13 December 2016 [2] 6 Kayoko Ebata: 19 May 2017 — 1 Dec 2018 1 7 Etsuko Tada: 1 Dec 2018 — 28 Mar ...
The National Boxing Association (NBA), was formed in 1921 as the first organization aimed at regulating boxing on a national (and later global) level. The prominence of New York City as the epicenter of boxing would lead to a governmental entity, the powerful New York State Athletic Commission (NYSAC), to join the NBA in sanctioning bouts as "world championships."