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The Silver Gloves is an annual competition for amateur boxing in the United States. The contest is sponsored by Ringside, Inc.
The Silver Gloves are open to all non-professional pugilists age 10 to 15 years old. The Silver Gloves is not the Golden Gloves amateur tournament, which is for amateur pugilists age 16 and over.
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The Golden Gloves Of America is an organization that promotes annual competitions of amateur boxing in the United States, in which winners are awarded a belt and a ring, and the title of national champion. The organization currently owns 30 franchises. Hundreds of administrators, coaches, trainers and counselors participate, involving gyms and programs in local and regional tournaments throughout the United States and in a National Tournament of Champions each year. The Golden Gloves is a term used to refer to the National Golden Gloves competition, but can also represent several other amateur tournaments, including regional and state tournaments, such as the Chicago Golden Gloves, and the New York Golden Gloves, and the Rocky Mountain Golden Gloves.
Hayes Edward "Big Ed" Sanders was an American heavyweight boxer who won an Olympic gold medal in 1952.
Amateur boxing is a variant of boxing practiced at the collegiate level, at the Olympic Games, Pan American Games and Commonwealth Games, as well as many associations.
Costică Dafinoiu was a light-heavyweight boxer from Romania. He took up boxing in 1969, winning a bronze medal at the 1976 Olympics, a gold and a silver medals at the Romanian National Amateur Boxing Championship and won the Golden belt international tournament organized by Romania in 1974. He retired in 1981, and after receiving a degree in physical education worked as a boxing coach at his native club CS Progresul Brăila.
The New York Golden Gloves boxing tournament was considered by many boxing aficionados as one of the most elite Golden Gloves titles, along with the Chicago Golden Gloves. Named for the small golden gloves given out to the winners of each weight category, the New York Golden Gloves continued for decades under the sponsorship of the New York Daily News. Originally the tournament was known as "The New York Daily News Welfare Association's Golden Gloves Tournament of Champions" or simply "The New York."
Stephanie "Golden Girl" Jaramillo is a former professional boxer. She has been inducted into the Amateur Athletic World Hall of Fame Museum for Outstanding Boxing Achievement.
The United States National Boxing Championships bestow the title of United States Champion on Olympic boxers for winning the annual national Olympic boxing tournament organized by USA Boxing, which is the national governing body for Olympic boxing and is the United States' member organization of the International Boxing Federation.
Jordan Shimmell is an American amateur heavyweight boxer best known for winning the National Golden Gloves and the US Champion at 201 lbs in 2009.
Clinton Jackson is an American former professional boxer. As an amateur, he competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics. He also won a silver medal at the 1974 World Championships and a gold at the 1975 Pan American Games.
Javontae Starks is an American professional boxer from Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Craig Snyder is a retired American boxer.
Fernando Guerrero De La Cruz is a Dominican-American middleweight professional boxer.
José Luis Benavidez Jr. is an American professional boxer who challenged for the WBO welterweight title in 2018. He made his acting debut as Felix Chavez in Creed III (2023).
The Golden Gloves in British Columbia, Canada has been a key amateur boxing tournament since its inception in 1939. The debut Golden Gloves champions in 1939 were Wayne Morris, Alan Dunn, Phil Vickery, Erick Burnell, Bob Hickey, Henry Devine and Kenny Lindsay. The first Golden Boy was Phil Vickery.
Tiger Smalls is a professional American boxing trainer who formerly held the World Boxing Organization Inter-Continental Featherweight title and North American Boxing Organization Featherweight title, as well as the Universal Boxing Association world featherweight title.
Shemuel Pagan is an American professional boxer in the lightweight division. He is trained by his father, Robert Pagan. He is currently training at Sadam Ali's gym in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Shemuel Pagan is a Puerto Rican American of strict Jewish faith.
Selay Soy is an Indian boxer from Jharkhand player of Indian Boxing Federation. He won a medal in the 2017 Asian Junior Amateur Boxing Championships.
Al Fenn was a boxing promoter and trainer from Phoenix, Arizona. He was also the president of the Arizona Golden Gloves Association. He served as a mentor and father figure to Tongan boxer Tony Fulilangi who once fought George Foreman.
Georg Frederic Brueckner was a German martial arts pioneer and inventor of fighting sports gear used for boxing, kickboxing and other pugilistic sports. He died in Berlin aged 62.
Leuila Mau'u is a New Zealand amateur boxer. He won a bronze medal in the super heavyweight division at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. Mau'u also competed at the 2020 Asia & Oceania Boxing Olympic Qualification Tournament.