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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 ...
PARIS — Lin Yu-ting captured featherweight gold on Saturday, defeating Poland’s Julia Szeremeta and shaking off more than a week of specious allegations that she shouldn’t be fighting women.
LISTEN: 5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce podcast. 2025 results. 8 January. Queensland, Australia. Jai Opetaia stops David Nyika in devastating fashion (IBF cruiserweight world title) 11 January ...
The 2023 IBA Women's World Boxing Championships were the 13th edition of the championships, held in New Delhi, India from 15 to 26 March 2023. [1] [2] India topped the medal tally for the first time after 2006. Medal winners were awarded prize money; gold medallists earn $100,000, silver medallists $50,000, and bronze medallists $25,000.
The debate at the Olympics flared 16 months after both women were disqualified and denied medals at the 2023 world championships by the Russian-dominated International Boxing Association.
In those days, the rules of boxing allowed kicking, gouging and other methods of attack not part of today's arsenal. [6] Women's boxing first appeared in the Olympic Games as a demonstration sport in 1904, in St. Louis. [7] During the 1920s, Professor Andrew Newton formed a Women's Boxing Club in London. [8] However women's boxing was hugely ...
Mikaela Mayer meets Alycia Baumgardner in a super featherweight elimination bout Saturday in London with women's boxing on the rise.
Bavington was named women's boxer of the year at the 2022 Midlands Area Board of Control Awards. [9] She lost by split decision to Canada's Kandi Wyatt in a contest for the vacant WBA female welterweight Intercontinental title in Wolverhampton on 10 March 2023 [10] and was subsequently stripped of her European titie. [11]