WBA Asia

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WBA Asia
Sport Professional boxing
Founded2014
Affiliation
  • WBA (2017–present)
  • WBC (2014–2016)
Headquarters Seoul, South Korea
PresidentAlan Kim
Official website
wbaasiaboxing.com

WBA Asia (formerly known as Eurasia Pacific Boxing Council, also known as EPBC) is an organisation for professional boxing in the Central Asia, Oceania, Pan Pacific, Eurasia and Southeast and Far East nations. Formed in 2014, it is headquartered in Seoul. [1]

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History

WBC affiliation

In 2016, WBC released an open letter, stating the following: [2]

"Eurasia Pacific Boxing Council is not a WBC Federation. It is only a committee affiliated with the WBC, ..."

"Any request for a new federation or commission to affiliate to the WBC is a matter that must be addressed by the WBC Board of Governors in the annual conventions of the WBC."

This open letter came about due to MBC claimed that they have secured affiliation with WBC. [3] However WBC shot the affiliation down and stated that MBC only has affiliation with EPBC and not WBC. [4]

In February 2017, EPBC announced that they will be leaving the WBC to join WBA. [5]

WBA affiliation

In February 2017, WBA Asia was accepted by WBA president Gilberto Jesús Mendoza. [6] The final was on March 25 with Pavel Malikov won over Mirzhan Zhaksylykov for the WBA ASIA Lightweight title match. [7] This was created alongside WBA Oceania title to replace the Pan Asian Boxing Association title which left and created their own sanctioning body called the World Boxing Society.

WBA Asia champions

Weight ClassAsia Regular ChampionAsia East ChampionAsia South ChampionAsia Central ChampionAsia Female Champion
Heavyweight Alessio BisuttiVacantVacantVacantVacant
Bridgerweight Gabriel KocsisVacantVacantVacantVacant
Cruiserweight Alexei Papin Anton ZaytsevVacantVacantVacant
Light heavyweight Artavazd AroyanVacantVacantVacantVacant
Super middleweight Ibragim EstemirovRizvan ElikhanovVacantNikita ZonVacant
Middleweight Pavel SosulinVacantKulbir DhakaVacantVacant
Super welterweight Avzalbek KuranbaevAlbert KhamkhoevVacantVacantVacant
Welterweight Ruslan MadiyevVadim MusaevVacantVacantVacant
Super lightweight Phongtep HomjuiVacantIbrahim ChabaneVacantVacant
Lightweight Sirochbek IsmoilovTigran UzlyanMatvei LagerevVacantVacant
Super featherweight Ongen SaknosiwiVacantVacantVacantVacant
Featherweight Shakhzodbek SharobiddinovJermaine HardisonVacantVacantVacant
Super bantamweight De-Kang WangChingiz NatyrovVacantVacantKarina Tazabekova
Bantamweight VacantMekhdi AbdurashedovVacantVacantBalaussa Muzdiman
Super flyweight Reymart TagacanaoVacantVacantVacantFelmy Sumaehe
Flyweight Tanes Ongjunta Immanuel JosefBerland RoblesVacantVacant
Light flyweight Arvin Jhon PacionesVacantVacantVacantHye-Soo Park
Minimumweight Joey Canoy VacantIan AbneVacantVacant

References

  1. ↑ "EPBC: About us". EPBC. Retrieved 2016-05-18.
  2. ↑ Robert J.B. Lenhardt (2016-03-18). "MBC Request for WBC Affiliation". WBC. Archived from the original on 2016-07-01. Retrieved 2016-05-31.
  3. ↑ "MBC secures affiliation with WBC Eurasia Pacific Boxing Council". Box Score News. 2016-03-18. Retrieved 2016-05-31.
  4. ↑ Robert J.B. Lenhardt (2016-03-18). "MBC Request for WBC Affiliation". WBC. Archived from the original on 2016-07-01. Retrieved 2016-05-31.
  5. ↑ "EPBC is no longer affiliating with WBC". WBC. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
  6. ↑ "Gilberto Jesus Mendoza presents WBA-Asia". WBA. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
  7. ↑ "Results". WBA. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
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