Introduction to the world’s four major boxing organizations and professional boxing competition rules

Since boxing requires strong explosive power of muscles and perfect techniques and tactics, boxing is one of the most complex competitive sports. Below is an introduction I have collected for you about the world’s four major boxing organizations and the rules of professional boxing competitions. Welcome to refer to them.

Introduction to the world’s four major boxing organizations and professional boxing competition rules

At present, in the field of professional boxing, the largest world boxing organizations have Four, namely WBO, WBC, WBA, and IBF. These four boxing organizations have their own certification systems and have their own "golden belt" boxers at each level, which are often referred to as "boxing champions" and boxers. You can choose to compete in any of these four organizations to obtain the ranking of that organization, and obtain the "Golden Belt" title established by the organization through the competition.

The WBA (World Boxing Association) was once called the NBA

The WBA is currently the boxing organization with the longest history. The organization is currently headquartered in Panama City, Panama.

The WBA is the oldest professional boxing organization in the world. It was founded on January 13, 1921. At the beginning, it was just a professional boxing group in the United States. Its original name was NBA, but this is not the NBA of professional basketball. It means National Boxing Association. At that time, 17 state boxing associations in the United States joined this group. New York and Massachusetts do not recognize the NBA.

Interestingly, the WBA, or NBA, at that time also included professional wrestling and wrestling divisions. In 1930, the wrestling department became independent and established the National Wrestling Association (actually wrestling), or NWA for short.

At that time, the NBA was the best professional boxing group in the world. The games it organized were considered authoritative events, and their influence spread all over the world. At first, there were only 8 levels under the NBA. Later, in 1922, it began to add the 130-pound super bantamweight and 140-pound super lightweight championship titles.

WBA gold belt

WBA was divided into three parts and transformed into WBC and IBF.

On August 20, 1962, in Tacoma, Washington, USA At the 43rd General Council meeting, the NBA changed its name to the World Boxing Association WBA. However, the European Boxing Association (EBA), the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC) and New York State rejected the WBA's invitation to join. Because these organizations believe that the WBA is a national organization dominated by American boxing forces, it is not appropriate to directly establish a world-class boxing organization with a national organization.

One year later, on February 14, 1963, after half a year of mediation, the WBA lowered its stance and cooperated with the European Boxing Federation, the British Boxing Management Committee, Latin American Boxing (LAPBU), and the Oriental Boxing Federation (OBF, The predecessor of the current OPBF) and others worked together to establish the WBC, the World Boxing Council. In this organization, the WBA is only an intercontinental organization and only has voting rights on the council. This major reform of world professional boxing was also supported by the New York State Athletic Commission, which was very powerful at the time.

Finally, the headquarters of the WBC was located in Mexico City, and its president was Suleiman.

At that time, the world of professional boxing was actually dominated by the United States. The WBA had the financial capacity to mobilize many boxers, and its status within the WBC was also superior to others. In particular, when the WBC was first established, it left a trail, giving the states in the United States, that is, the states that originally joined the WBA, the same voting rights as other countries. This made other countries even more dissatisfied.

Sure enough, two years later, on October 19, 1965, Mexico, the WBC chairman country, withdrew from the WBA due to dissatisfaction with the penalty in a match. In 1968, the Philippines, which was the WBC chairman country at the time, also Withdrew from the WBA, which accelerated the split between the WBA and the WBC.

Due to dissatisfaction with the American forces in the original WBA organization, in 1974, Latin American forces, European forces, and Asian forces joined forces to take advantage of the conflicts between American states to elect people other than Americans and Canadians. President, Panamanian Elias. Since then, the American has never been able to get involved in the position of president of the WBA.

In 1983, after the death of WBA President Rodrigo Sanchez, the WBA once again split into two camps for elections. The American forces supported Robert E. Lee, while other forces recommended Mendo from Venezuela. Sa. After a fierce battle, Mendoza was successfully elected.

In anger, Robert Lee left with the American forces and established the International Boxing Federation (IBF).

The WBA organization’s current subsidiaries include WBA Africa, WBA Europe, WBA PABA, WBA North America, NABA and other directly affiliated intercontinental organizations, as well as franchise organizations such as OPBF, which can certify intercontinental kings. The main ones in Asia are PABA and OPBF.

The organization’s gold belt is black with a gold logo.

It is worth noting that some reforms of the WBA after the 1990s were not successful. For example, in addition to the boxing champions at each level, in order to increase certification fees and increase competition promotion, the Super Boxing Association was created. The concept of king (defending the boxing champion of this organization three times or holding the championship gold belt of two of the other three organizations of WBC, WBO or IBF at the same time) and the concept of tentative boxing champion (similar to the mandatory challenger). This led to the devaluation of the WBA's regular world title.

WBC: Currently the most authoritative professional organization

As mentioned earlier, the WBC considers itself to be the first broadly representative international boxing organization.

Currently, WBC is a national-level professional boxing organization among the four major organizations. It has the most professional agents and is considered the most authoritative organization for professional champions. It also has the most boxers participating in WBC competitions. The professional rankings of boxers from the other three major organizations can often only be ranked 15th, while the regular professional rankings of the WBC can be ranked in the 40s.

The WBC has made many reform contributions in the development of professional boxing. For example, in order to take care of the boxers' health, in 1983, the WBC reduced the number of rounds for professional intercontinental champions and world champions from the original 15 rounds to 12 rounds. In addition, the WBC took the lead in fully implementing the existing professional boxing point reduction scoring method (WBA has used it before, but it has not become a unified standard). Currently, this professional boxing scoring method has been adopted by world professional events, such as kickboxing, UFC, Muay Thai, etc. It is widely used in competitions.

In addition, due to problems with referee scoring in some WBC matches held in Japan in the 1990s, the WBC modified the rules and broadcast the score every 4 rounds. These reforms are considered to be progressive reform measures.

WBC Gold Belt

The WBC World Gold Belt is a green belt with a gold logo.

At present, its subsidiaries include the North American Boxing Federation (NABF), the European Boxing Union (EBU), the Oriental and Pacific Boxing Federation (OPBF), the Asian Boxing Council (ABCO), and the African Boxing Union (ABU). , the South American Boxing Federation (FESUBOX), the Caribbean Boxing Federation (CABOFE), the Commonwealth of Independent States and the Slovenian Boxing Bureau (CISBB) and other major intercontinental organizations. The Spanish Boxing Association has many splintered small organizations, which are the same at the WBC level. The field is also considered a continental organization, but many of these titles are already in the stage of being hosted or jointly certified by Caribbean and Latin organizations.

There are 14 intercontinental organizations recognized or generally recognized by WBC membership, but in fact only the above 9 are the most important.

IBF Golden Belt

IBF: The purest professional bloodline in North America

In the competition of professional boxing organizations’ power game, IBF has maintained the purest professional boxing in North America. of blood. When Robert Lee failed to compete with Mendoza for the WBA in 1983, he angrily left the United States with his original foundation and established the IBF? International Boxing Federation organization of which I am the boss.

IBF is currently headquartered in Newark, New Jersey, USA. The foundation of the IBF is the United States Boxing Association (USBA), which was originally affiliated with the WBA. This organization was formed separately under the WBA system by franchising organizations in various states in the United States after the NBA was reorganized into the WBA. In order to distinguish it from the United States Boxing Association established by Joan Mike Management Office (also referred to as USBA), so people generally call it NABF.

Due to the huge boxing market in the United States, there are many foreign players, such as South American and European players, who come to the United States to participate in competitions. Therefore, the USBA established an international department in 1983 to erode the body of the WBA. However, because Robert Lee failed to gain control of the WBA with only a narrow margin in the election, in the end, with the support of boxing agent Don King, who was almost all-powerful at the time, Robert Lee led a group of agents to leave. WBC world heavyweight champion Larry Holmes, who dominated the boxing world between Ali and Tyson, supported the IBF, which soon made the IBF a world-renowned boxing organization.

Unfortunately, because the IBF is heavily controlled and influenced by the United States, its intercontinental franchise organization is very weak and has long been resisted by European and Asian boxing organizations and agents. Compared with the WBA and WBC, except for the North American continent, the IBF lacks powerful franchise agents in other regions, and its intercontinental organization has serious vacancies in its gold belts. After entering the 21st century, IBF found it difficult to organize and launch its own powerful champion, and had to enter into compromises. It often conducted joint certifications with other organizations, and its position among the four major organizations showed a trend of weakening.

The IBF belt is red with a gold logo. In addition, the IBF king is generally called the IBF/USBA joint certification world king to show respect for the original USBA organization.

WBO gold belt

WBO: The story of star power coming from behind

Among the four major professional organizations, the youngest is the WBO. However, due to the modern era, the WBO With the support of Arom, the top professional agent of TOP RANK Company, and its always focusing on star effect and actively attracting big-name players, the current status of the four major organizations in the professional boxing world is second only to the WBC.

The WBC parted ways with the WBA in 1968, and the IBF separated from the WBA in 1983. Both separations were due to a dominance struggle, that is, the separation between American professional boxing forces and non-American boxing forces. The WBO dropped from the WBA in 1988 and started a new one because of the struggle between the WBA leadership and powerful agents.

At that time, the Caribbean boxing organization and the two major agents Luis Salas and Alberto Aleman failed in the WBA internal election in 1988. They supported the Caribbean forces. With the help of some lower-level organizations in the WBC, the WBO? World Boxing Organization was formed.

Due to the focus on a small number of elite promoters from the beginning, focusing on a small number of top boxers, and giving them star treatment that is rare in other organizations, such as extended mandatory challenges, many well-known boxers are unwilling to accept the compulsion of the WBC regulations, and gradually left the WBO.

Starting from De La Hoya, WBO has always followed the route of promoting big names, so there will be star-making effects such as Pacquiao and the Klinchenko brothers, and eventually it will become the four major boxing organizations in the world. Currently the most active organization in the world. Compared with the WBC, the WBO has the loosest organizational structure, but its competitions are of higher quality.

Compared with the other three organizations, the WBO competition rules are slightly different. Other organizations believe that no matter how many times you fall to the ground in a round, as long as the referee thinks there is no problem, you can continue to fight, while the WBO If you are knocked down three times in one round, you will be awarded a KO directly.

The WBO currently has 7 intercontinental organizations under its umbrella: NABO North America, WBO Asia-Pacific, WBO Inter-continental, WBO Latin, WBO Oriental, WBO Africa, and WBO Europe. Among them, Asian players are mainly Participate in competitions organized by Asia Pacific and East.

Golden belts and star boxing champions are always the best partners to complement each other:

Introduction to professional boxing matches

There are three types of 61012 rounds, with three rounds in each round Minutes,

American professional boxing competition rules

Standard boxing championship rules (may change depending on the competition)

1. Competition* **There are 6.10.12 rounds. (Domestic competitions usually have 4 rounds)

2. Weighing and physical examination will be conducted before the competition.

3. There is no rule to terminate the game after being knocked down three times. Temporary termination of the game should be decided by the referee.

4. There is no rule that boxers will be counted to 8 if they are standing.

5. Ringtone, WBC: In the game, the ringtone can save you only in the last round; IBF/USBA (American Boxing Association): The ringtone cannot save you at any time in the game.

6. Boxing gloves, WBC: boxing gloves weigh 8 ounces (about half a pound), IBF and USBA: boxing gloves weigh 10 ounces (about 6 pounds).

7. In a boxing match, hitting the opponent below the waist, WBC: If a boxer is hit by the opponent below the waist, he can be allowed to rest for a period of time, but must continue to participate in the game (otherwise He will be sentenced to lose); IBF/USBA: After the boxer is hit by the opponent below the waist, he can rest for a period of time, which cannot exceed 5 minutes. After the break, he must continue to participate in the game, otherwise, he will be sentenced to lose.

8. Intentional foul. If a boxer loses the ability to continue the match after being intentionally fouled by the opponent, then the offender will be disqualified from the match. WBC: If a boxer is intentionally fouled by an opponent, and the wound caused by the boxer is effectively hit by the opponent in the subsequent game and worsens, resulting in the game being terminated, then the boxer who is leading on the scoreboard at this time will become the winner of the game. Winner of the match; IBF/USBA: If a boxer is intentionally fouled by an opponent and subsequently suffers the same injury resulting in the fight being terminated, if the injured boxer is ahead on the scoreboard. , then he will become the winner of the game (by technical decision method). If the injured boxer is behind or tied with the opponent on the scoreboard, then the result of the game will be a technical draw; WBC: For intentional fouls The boxer will be deducted 2 points.

9. Unexpected fouls (accidental fouls). Only the referee can determine whether an unintentional foul has occurred.

WBC: If a boxer is fouled by an opponent and loses the match, the boxer with the lead on the scoreboard will be the winner of the match. This determination must be based on the end of the fourth round. ;IBF/USBA: If the boxer is unable to continue the match after being fouled by an opponent, or in the following match, due to being fouled by the opponent, the wound caused by the opponent worsens and the boxer cannot continue the match. At this time, if the sixth round has ended , then the boxer who is ahead on the scoreboard will be the winner of the game, and only the score of the round that has ended will be recorded. WBC: If the boxing match continues, and in the next match, due to the opponent's effective punch, the wound of the fouled fighter worsens, so that the match cannot continue, then the boxer who is ahead on the scoreboard will become the winner. The winner of the match in which the round was terminated shall also be credited.

10. Only the referee can terminate the game;

11. Doping (banned drugs) inspections should be conducted after the game. Competitors must go to the locker room to collect urine samples. Such extractions must be performed by physician special investigators on the sidelines;