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The North American Boxing Council is a professional Boxing
Boxing

Boxing is a combat sport where two participants, generally of similar human weight, fight each other with their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee and is typically engaged in during a series of one to three-minute intervals called rounds....
 and Mixed Martial Arts
Mixed martial arts

Mixed martial arts is a Contact sport combat sport that allows a wide variety of fighting techniques, from a mixture of martial arts traditions and non-traditions, to be used in competitions....
 sanctioning body with its United States office in Indianapolis, IN. The US operations are managed by NABC President, Ed Hutchison. The NABC was founded in 1971 and has operated in its current incarnation since 1999.

NABC boxing championship bouts have been televised on HBO Boxing
HBO Boxing

HBO World Championship Boxing is a sports TV series, premiering in January 1973 that has shown a number of significant boxing events in the last three decades....
, ESPN2 Friday Night Fights
ESPN2 Friday Night Fights

Friday Night Fights is a television boxing show, of the American channel ESPN2, that shows a series of live boxing fights on Friday nights, usually at 9 p.m....
 and Fox Sports. Boxers who have fought for the NABC belt include Evander Holyfield
Evander Holyfield

Evander Holyfield is a professional boxing from the United States and a multiple world champion in both the cruiserweight and heavyweight divisions, earning him the nickname "The Real Deal"....
, Félix Trinidad
Félix Trinidad

F?lix 'Tito' Trinidad, Jr. is a Puerto Rico professional boxer, considered as one of the best boxers in that archipelago's history. When he was an amateur Trinidad won five National Amateur Championships in Puerto Rico....
, Larry Donald
Larry Donald

Larry Ali Donald is a professional heavyweight boxer, who competed for the United States at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain....
, Ricardo Mayorga, Stevie Johnston
Stevie Johnston

Steven Earl Johnston is an American boxer in the lightweight division. Johnston is a two-time former WBC Lightweight Champion....
, Joshua Clottey
Joshua Clottey

Joshua Clottey is a Welterweight boxer who hails from Accra, Ghana, but now lives in the Bronx, New York. He is currently the International Boxing Federation Welterweight Champion....
, Ian Gardner
Ian Gardner

Ian Gardner, nicknamed The Cobra because of his slithering movements on the boxing ring, is a junior-middleweight boxer who resided in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, but now resides in Brooklyn, New York, USA....
, and Damian Fuller.






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The North American Boxing Council is a professional Boxing
Boxing

Boxing is a combat sport where two participants, generally of similar human weight, fight each other with their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee and is typically engaged in during a series of one to three-minute intervals called rounds....
 and Mixed Martial Arts
Mixed martial arts

Mixed martial arts is a Contact sport combat sport that allows a wide variety of fighting techniques, from a mixture of martial arts traditions and non-traditions, to be used in competitions....
 sanctioning body with its United States office in Indianapolis, IN. The US operations are managed by NABC President, Ed Hutchison. The NABC was founded in 1971 and has operated in its current incarnation since 1999.

NABC boxing championship bouts have been televised on HBO Boxing
HBO Boxing

HBO World Championship Boxing is a sports TV series, premiering in January 1973 that has shown a number of significant boxing events in the last three decades....
, ESPN2 Friday Night Fights
ESPN2 Friday Night Fights

Friday Night Fights is a television boxing show, of the American channel ESPN2, that shows a series of live boxing fights on Friday nights, usually at 9 p.m....
 and Fox Sports. Boxers who have fought for the NABC belt include Evander Holyfield
Evander Holyfield

Evander Holyfield is a professional boxing from the United States and a multiple world champion in both the cruiserweight and heavyweight divisions, earning him the nickname "The Real Deal"....
, Félix Trinidad
Félix Trinidad

F?lix 'Tito' Trinidad, Jr. is a Puerto Rico professional boxer, considered as one of the best boxers in that archipelago's history. When he was an amateur Trinidad won five National Amateur Championships in Puerto Rico....
, Larry Donald
Larry Donald

Larry Ali Donald is a professional heavyweight boxer, who competed for the United States at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain....
, Ricardo Mayorga, Stevie Johnston
Stevie Johnston

Steven Earl Johnston is an American boxer in the lightweight division. Johnston is a two-time former WBC Lightweight Champion....
, Joshua Clottey
Joshua Clottey

Joshua Clottey is a Welterweight boxer who hails from Accra, Ghana, but now lives in the Bronx, New York. He is currently the International Boxing Federation Welterweight Champion....
, Ian Gardner
Ian Gardner

Ian Gardner, nicknamed The Cobra because of his slithering movements on the boxing ring, is a junior-middleweight boxer who resided in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, but now resides in Brooklyn, New York, USA....
, and Damian Fuller. Promoters who have held NABC contests include Don King, Fred Berns, and Gary Shaw
Gary Shaw

Gary Shaw was an English association football striker who played for Aston Villa in the early 1980s. His goals helped Aston Villa win the English The Football League#1958-1992 championship in 1980–81 and the UEFA Champions League the following year - the only Birmingham-born player in the team....
.

On July 28, 2006, the NABC became the first professional boxing sanctioning body to sanction a Mixed Martial Arts bout when Jessie Chilton defeated Eddie Sanchez at Legends of Fighting 8 in Indianapolis to win the NABC 185lb MMA championship.

The NABC produces its own MMA cards as NABC Extreme Fighting and sanctions individual bouts as NABC MMA title matches for other MMA promotions. NABC mixed martial arts championship matches have been televised on the HDNet
HDNet

HDNet is a general interest television channel in the United States, broadcasting exclusively in high-definition television format and available via cable television and direct broadcast satellite television....
 cable channel as NABC Extreme Fighting and as individual title bouts on Cage Fury Fighting Championships
Cage Fury Fighting Championships

Cage Fury Fighting Championships was an American mixed martial arts promotion. Founded by Felix & Amy Martinez, the promotion promoted in Atlantic City, New Jersey, New Jersey, having just held five events, last minute cancellation of its sixth event, and second pay-per-view resulted in its demise....
 pay per view broadcasts.

NABC sanctioning of MMA matches and the implications for the future of professional boxing were examined in an NBC Sports story by Kenny Rice http://www.nabc.net/1566096.htm May 29, 2007.

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