International Boxing Association
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The International Boxing Association (IBA) is a for-profit organization that sanctions professional boxing
matches and awards world and subordinate championships.
, a former Major League Baseball
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Boxing
Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...
matches and awards world and subordinate championships.
Origins
The IBA was founded in the 1990s by Dean ChanceDean Chance
Wilmer Dean Chance is a former American Major League Baseball pitcher. Over the right hander's 11-year major league career, he would play for the Los Angeles Angels, Minnesota Twins, Cleveland Indians, New York Mets, and Detroit Tigers...
, a former Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball is the highest level of professional baseball in the United States and Canada, consisting of teams that play in the National League and the American League...
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Pitcher
In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throwsthe baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to either make contact with the pitched ball or draw a walk. In the numbering system used to record defensive plays, the...
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"Stepping Stone"
While successful since its formation, the IBA's World championship is widely considered to be a "stepping stone" title - one which up and coming boxers win on their way to gaining the opportunity to fight for a more prestigious organization's championship title, but has gained some acclaim by its titles being held by many notable boxers.Notable Title Holders
Some notable Champions are:- Eric EschEric EschEric Scott Esch is an American heavyweight boxer, kick-boxer, professional wrestler, and mixed martial artist commonly referred to as Butterbean....
- Former Super Heavyweight Champion, more commonly known as Butterbean - Oscar De La HoyaOscar de la HoyaOscar De La Hoya is a retired American boxer of Mexican descent. Nicknamed "The Golden Boy", De La Hoya won a gold medal at the Barcelona Olympic Games shortly after graduating from Garfield High School. De La Hoya comes from a boxing family. His grandfather Vicente, father Joel Sr., and brother...
- Former Welterweight and Light Middleweight Champion - Alejandro Martín GonzálezAlejandro Martín GonzálezAlejandro Martín González was a Mexican boxer in the Lightweight division. González is a former WBC Featherweight and IBA Lightweight Champion...
- Former Lightweight Champion - Roy Jones Jr.Roy Jones Jr.Roy Jones, Jr. is an American boxer. As a professional he has captured numerous world titles in the middleweight, super middleweight, light heavyweight, and heavyweight divisions...
- Former Light Heavyweight Champion - James ToneyJames ToneyJames Nathanial Toney is an American professional boxer who has held world titles in the middleweight, super middleweight, and cruiserweight divisions. Toney currently fights in the heavyweight division in boxing and also now competes in mixed martial arts.-Boxing career:Toney's amateur boxing...
- Former two time Heavyweight Champion and former Super Cruiserweight Champion - George ForemanGeorge ForemanGeorge Edward Foreman is an American two-time former World Heavyweight Boxing Champion, Olympic gold medalist, ordained Baptist minister, author and successful entrepreneur...
- Former Heavyweight Champion - Mikkel KesslerMikkel KesslerMikkel Kessler is a Danish professional boxer and former two time WBA & WBC Super Middleweight champion. In his professional career he has a record of 44–2 with 33 knockouts...
- Former Super Middleweight Champion - Glen JohnsonGlen Johnson (boxer)Glengoffe Donovan Johnson is a professional boxer. Nicknamed Gentleman and The Road Warrior, Johnson is the former IBF and Ring magazine light heavyweight champion.-Amateur career:...
- Former Light Heavyweight Champion - Joel CasamayorJoel CasamayorJoel "El Cepillo" Casamayor Johnson is a Cuban boxer, who turned pro after defecting to the United States on the eve of the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. The nickname "El Cepillo", literally translated to "the brush", comes from his uppercut, which rakes his opponents across the face...
- Former Super Featherweight Champion - Erik MoralesErik MoralesÉrik Isaac Morales Elvira is a Mexican professional boxer. He is the first Mexican born boxer in history to win a world title in four weight classes and is the current WBC Light Welterweight Champion...
- Former Super Featherweight Champion - Arturo GattiArturo GattiArturo "Thunder" Gatti was a Canadian professional boxer. Born in Cassino, Italy, and raised in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Gatti relocated to Jersey City, United States as a teenager...
- Former Welterweight Champion - Diego CorralesDiego CorralesDiego "Chico" Corrales was an American boxer.He was the WBC, WBO, & The Ring lightweight champion, and the WBO & IBF super featherweight champion....
- Former Super Featherweight Champion - Shane MosleyShane Mosley“Sugar” Shane Mosley is an American professional boxer from Pomona, California who has held world titles in three weight divisions.-Amateur career:Mosley was an amateur standout, capturing various amateur titles, including:...
- Former Welterweight Champion - Antonio TarverAntonio TarverAntonio Deon Tarver , nicknamed the "Magic Man", is a professional boxer from Orlando, Florida and the former WBC, WBA, IBF, & The Ring light heavyweight champion....
- Former Light Heavyweight Champion - José Luis CastilloJosé Luis CastilloJosé Luis Castillo is a Mexican boxer. Nicknamed El Temible, Castillo is considered one the best lightweights of his era. He is the former The Ring and two-time WBC Lightweight champion....
- Former Super Featherweight Champion - Orlando CanizalesOrlando CanizalesOrlando Canizales is an American boxer who won the International Boxing Federation bantamweight title and defended it a record sixteen consecutive times.-Boxing career:...
- Former Featherweight Champion - Fernando VargasFernando VargasFernando Vargas is a retired Mexican American boxer and two-time world champion, who won a bronze medal as an amateur at the 1995 Pan American Games in Mar del Plata. His nicknames include "Ferocious", "The Aztec Warrior" and "El Feroz"...
- Former Junior Middleweight Champion
Men's and Women's Titles
The IBA became a pioneer among sanctioning organizations in the early 2000s when it began recognizing women's champions at the world level.Current IBA World Title Holders
| Weight class: | Champion: | Date won: |
|---|---|---|
| Light flyweight Light flyweight - Professional boxing :The weight limit at light flyweight in professional boxing is 108 pounds . When New York legalized boxing in 1920, the law stipulated a "junior flyweight" class, with a weight limit of 99 pounds. When the National Boxing Association was formed in 1921, it also recognized this... (108 lbs) |
vacant | |
| Flyweight Flyweight Flyweight is a class in boxing which includes fighters weighing less than 112 lb but above 108 lb .-Professional boxing:... (112 lbs) |
 Isidro Garcia |
17 April 2007 |
| Junior bantamweight (115 lbs) | vacant | |
| Bantamweight Bantamweight Bantamweight is usually a class in boxing for boxers who weigh above 115 pounds and up to 118 pounds . However, in Mixed Martial Arts it is 134-136 pounds . Wrestling also has similar weight classes including bantamweight... (118 lbs) |
Jose Silveira |
19 February 2011 |
| Junior featherweight (122 lbs) | vacant | |
| Featherweight Featherweight Featherweight is a weight class division in the sport of boxing. There are similarly named divisions under several Mixed Martial Arts organizations and in Greco-Roman wrestling.-Professional boxing:... (126 lbs) |
vacant | |
| Junior lightweight (130 lbs) | Jorge Perez |
19 February 2011 |
| Lightweight Lightweight Light-weight is a class of athletes in a particular sport, based on their weight.-Professional boxing:The lightweight division is over 130 pounds and up to 135 pounds weight class in the sport of boxing.... (135 lbs) |
 Rustam Nugaev |
23 February 2008 |
| Junior welterweight (140 lbs) | Silverio Ortiz Silverio Ortiz Silverio José Ortiz Ley is a Mexican boxer in the Welterweight division. Silverio is the current IBA Light Welterweight Champion.-Pro career:... |
1 May 2010 |
| Welterweight Welterweight Welterweight is a weight class division in combat sports. Originally the term "welterweight" was used only in boxing, but other combat sports like kickboxing, taekwondo and mixed martial arts also began to use it for their own weight division system... (147 lbs) |
Ricky Hatton | |
| Junior middleweight (154 lbs) | vacant | |
| Middleweight Middleweight Middleweight is a division, or weight class, in boxing. Early boxing history is less than exact, but the middleweight designation seems to have begun in the 1840s. In the bare-knuckle era, the first middleweight championship fight was between Tom Chandler and Dooney Harris in 1897... (160 lbs) |
vacant | |
| Super middleweight Super middleweight Super Middleweight is a boxing and Muay Thai weight division that has a weight limit of 168 pounds .- 1960s–1983 :There was interest in a division between Middleweight and Light Heavyweight in the late 1960s, the mid-1970s, and the early 1980s... (168 lbs) |
vacant | |
| Light heavyweight Light heavyweight In boxing, the light heavyweight is a weight division above 168 pounds [12 Stone or 76.204 kilograms] and up to 175 pounds [12.5 stone or 79.38 kilograms]), falling between super middleweight and cruiserweight... (175 lbs) |
 Beibut ShumenovBeibut Shumenov Beibut Shumenov, is a Kazakh professional boxer who fights in the light heavyweight division. He is the current WBA Light Heavyweight Champion.-Amateur career:Shumenov represented Kazakhstan in the 2004 Summer Olympics... |
9 May 2009 |
| Cruiserweight (190 lbs) |  Roy Jones, Jr. |
10 December 2011 |
| Super-cruiserweight Super-cruiserweight A Super Cruiserweight is a professional boxer who is too heavy for the Cruiserweight division but not big, or tall, enough to compete well in the Heavyweight Division. It should not be confused with the Light Heavyweight division.... (210 lbs) |
BJ Flores |
2 March 2007 |
| Heavyweight Heavyweight Heavyweight is a division, or weight class, in boxing. Fighters who weigh over 200 pounds are considered heavyweights by the major professional boxing organizations: the International Boxing Federation, the World Boxing Association, the World Boxing Council, and the World Boxing... (210+ lbs) |
vacant | |
Other world organizations
- International Boxing CouncilInternational Boxing CouncilThe International Boxing Council is a boxing organization. The IBC titles are often the beginning for professional boxers who progress to high prestigious titles....
- International Boxing FederationInternational Boxing FederationThe International Boxing Federation or IBF is one of four major organizations recognized by IBHOF which sanction world championship boxing bouts, alongside the WBA, WBC and WBO.- History :...
- International Boxing OrganizationInternational Boxing OrganizationThe International Boxing Organization is a for-profit organization that sanctions professional boxing matches and awards world and subordinate championships.- Origins :...
- International Boxing UnionInternational Boxing UnionThe International Boxing Union was created June 1911 in Paris, France. It was an attempt to create a unified international governing body for professional boxing...
- World Boxing AssociationWorld Boxing AssociationThe World Boxing Association is a boxing organization that sanctions official matches, and awards the WBA world championship title at the professional level. It was previously known as the National Boxing Association before changing its name in 1962...
- World Boxing CouncilWorld Boxing CouncilThe World Boxing Council was initially established by 11 countries: the United States, Argentina, United Kingdom, France, Mexico, Philippines, Panama, Chile, Peru, Venezuela and Brazil plus Puerto Rico, met in Mexico City on February 14, 1963, upon invitation of the then President of Mexico, Adolfo...
- World Professional Boxing FederationWorld Professional Boxing FederationThe World Professional Boxing Federation ' is an international sanctioning body that sanctions professional boxing matches and awards world and subordinate championship title...
- World Boxing OrganizationWorld Boxing OrganizationThe World Boxing Organization is a sanctioning organization currently recognizing professional boxing world champions. The organization is recognized as one of the four major world championship groups by the IBHOF alongside the International Boxing Federation, the World Boxing Council and the...
- European Boxing FederationEuropean Boxing FederationThe European Boxing Federation is a boxing governing body and sanctioning organisation created in 2005. Although the organisation is called European it lists its title holders as world champions....
- World Boxing UnionWorld Boxing UnionThe World Boxing Union is a boxing sanctioning body.Until recently it was fully recognised by the British Boxing Board of Control as a legitimate sanctioning body.WBU titles were particularly well recognised in Europe and Africa....