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It is one of four premier amateur boxing tournaments, the others being the National Golden Gloves Tournament, which crowns its own amateur featherweight champion, the Police Athletic League Tournament, and the United States Armed Forces Tournament, all sending champions to the US Olympic Trials.
The featherweight class was established in 1860 but did not achieve universal recognition until Weir won the title. [1] 1890-01-13 1890-09-02 Torpedo Billy Murphy: World 1890-09-02 1892-Vacated Young Griffo: World 1892-06-27 1896-11-27 George Dixon: World 1896-11-27 1897-03-24 Frank Erne: World 1897-03-24 1897-10-24 George Dixon: World 1897-10 ...
The United States National Boxing Championships bestow the title of United States Champion on Olympic boxers for winning the annual national Olympic boxing tournament organized by USA Boxing, which is the national governing body for Olympic boxing and is the United States' member organization of the World Boxing (since 2023; had been a member of the Association Internationale de Boxe (AIBA ...
List of Commonwealth Boxing Council champions is a table showing the Commonwealth champions certificated by the Commonwealth Boxing Council (CBC). The CBC is also affiliated with the WBC. v — Champion vacated title. s — Champion stripped of title. (n) — where 'n' is the number of occasions the title has been won.
USA Boxing, formerly known as the United States Amateur Boxing Federation, has governed amateur and Olympic boxing in the United States since 1978. [6] USA Boxing officially recognized women's boxing in 1993, becoming the first organization to do so in the world with a fight between Dallas Malloy & Heather Poyner in Lynwood, Washington.
During the 1970s, boxing was characterized by dominating champions and history-making rivalries. The decade had many superstars, who also had fierce rivals. Alexis Argüello, for example, who won the world Featherweight and Jr. Lightweight titles in the '70s, had to overcome Alfredo Escalera twice before the decade was over.
This is a list of United States national Golden Gloves champions in the featherweight division, along with the state or region they represented. The weight limit for featherweights was first contested at 126 lb (57 kg), but was lowered to 125 lb (57 kg) in 1967. [1]
(Known as Featherweight) Shooto: March 21, 2022 0 Brazilian: Tiago Pereira Jungle Fight: June 24, 2023 1 Albanian: Vilson Ndregjoni CFFC: April 1, 2023 1 South African: Nkazimulo Zulu EFC: July 13, 2023 0 Dominican: Tommy Garcia Titan: April 14, 2023 0 N/A: Vacant: Road FC: N/A: N/A: Mexican: David Martinez Combate Global: May 29, 2021 2 ...