Super Boxing League

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Super Boxing League
Super Boxing League logo.png
Sport Boxing
Founded2017
FounderBill Dosanjh, Amir Khan
First season2017
Owner(s)Bill Dosanjh
MottoHit Harder
No. of teams8
CountryIndia
Most recent
champion(s)
Maratha Yoddhas
Most titlesMaratha Yoddhas (1 title)
TV partner(s) Sony ESPN
Related
competitions
Super Fight League
Official website Official website

The Super Boxing League is the first professional boxing league in India. [1] [2] British businessman Bill Dosanjh and former boxing champion Amir Khan founded Super Boxing League in 2017 [3] after Super Fight League's first season. The league is organised with the support of World Boxing Council and Professional Boxing Organisation India. [4] The first season had 8 teams comprising both men and women pugilists. [5]

Contents

Teams

List of all participating teams. [6]

TeamLocationOwners
Delhi Gladiators Delhi Shiva Vij and Varun Jain (N V Group), Sushant Singh Rajput
Haryana Warriors Haryana Arun Gupta
Maratha Yoddhas Pune Ajeenkya Patil, Riteish Deshmukh
Mumbai Assassins Mumbai Nitin Jadhav, Sohail Khan
North East Tigers Northeast India Amit Aggarwal, Prakash Johari, Arun Malhotra
OPM Punjab Sultans Punjab Deep Malhotra, Sunny Leone, Gauravh Malhotra, Gautam Malhotra
Bahubali Boxers South India Mohammed Esa, Vishal Siwappa, Suniel Shetty, Rana Daggubati, Jonaid Bin Tajuddin Mohammed, Shobhu Yarlagadda, Avi Mittal.
UP Terminators Uttar Pradesh Jaskaran Puniyani and Navraj Jaura, Kanika Kapoor

Scoring system

The Super Boxing League will follow a special points scoring system. [7]

Bout outcomePoints awarded
Knock Out 6
Technical Knock Out4
Referee decision3
Draw 1

2017 SBL season

The first edition of SBL was held from July 7 to August 12, 2017, at Siri Fort, New Delhi. Maratha Yoddhas beat Haryana Warriors to become inaugural champion. While Sukhdeep Singh of Warriors was the Best Boxer of the league and Sandeep Chikara of Yoddhas was given the title of Best Knockout of the league.[ citation needed ]

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