Articles of category "Boxing competitions"

Today there are dozens of boxing organizations worldwide that sanction boxing championships at all levels. The most influential of them are the International Boxing Federation (IBF), World Boxing Council (WBC), the World Boxing Organization (WBO), and the World Boxing Association (WBA). Learn more about world's largest boxing organizations and championships.

Boxing was one of the events of the ancient Olympics. Boxers of that time used to wear plain leather straps around their hands and practiced with primal versions of punch bags that we know today. Throughout the Roman times, studs made of metal were inculcated which led to the sport obtaining increasingly violent tinge. Learn more interesting facts about Olympic Boxing?