The inaugural IBF heavyweight champion was Larry Holmes, who relinquished the WBC title to accept IBF's recognition, thus helping the newly formed organization to establish its legitimacy. The organization later changed the name to International Boxing Federation. Lee (a former WBA vice-president) voted to expand the organisation and form the USBA-International. In April 1983, members of United States Boxing Association along with Robert W.
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The reason for the move were concerns about WBA's alleged lack of desire to support professional boxing outside of the U.S. WBC was officially established on February 14, 1963, in Mexico City, Mexico by 11 countries (the U.S., Argentina, U.K., France, Mexico, Philippines, Panama, Chile, Peru, Venezuela and Brazil) that were invited by the President of Mexico Adolfo López Mateos to form an international organization to unify all commissions of the world to control the expansion of boxing. On August 23, 1962, the NBA officially became the World Boxing Association and moved their headquarters to Panama City, Panama.Ī year later NYSAC along with European Boxing Union and BBBofC supported creation of the World Boxing Council. The NBA's voting scheme guaranteed one vote for each state commission as well as one vote for each foreign country. The committee, however, was disbanded in 1955 when NBA, along with its new members (which included the Orient, Mexican and South American federations and boxing commissions of the Philippines and Thailand) left WCC citing lack of control over the organisation. The disruption in boxing was solved after World War II when the World Championship Committee (WCC) was created with NBA as its unanimous authority. This resulted in a growing number of boxers claiming to be legitimate champions. led to creation of various boxing organizations, each strengthening their influence (most notably BBBofC) and having their own champion. The growing popularity of boxing outside of the U.S. An early use of "undisputed" appears in a New York Times preview of the 1941 fight. The longest split was ten years, of the middleweight title, between Mickey Walker's move up to heavyweight in 1931 and NBA champion Tony Zale's defeat of NYSAC contender Georgie Abrams in 1941. The disputes were usually short-lived as a lucrative fight would be organised between the rival champions. Occasionally, the International Boxing Union (renamed the European Boxing Union in 1946) recognised a different champion. However, disputes could arise if the champion retired or moved to a different weight class. Until the 1960s, both usually recognised the same lineal champion. state bodies in 1921, and began recognising champions in 1927. The National Boxing Association (NBA) was founded by other U.S.
The New York State Athletic Commission (NYSAC) recognized champions from its foundation in 1920. Once a consensus champion had been awarded the title, the championship could usually be taken only by beating the reigning holder, establishing a lineal championship. Early boxing champions at various weight divisions were established by acclamation between 18.
Prior to the 1960s, most champions were "undisputed", although the term was rarely used (it does not appear in one 1970 Boxing Dictionary). 4.3 Most consecutive defenses of unified title.4.2 Most wins in unified championship bouts.
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