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. It was formed in 2014 and 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 ChampionAsia East ChampionAsia South ChampionAsia Female Champion
Heavyweight Vladyslav Sirenko Vacant Eric Pen [8] Vacant
CruiserweightRuslan FayferIssa AkberbayevVacantVacant
Light HeavyweightVacantVacantVacantVacant
Super Middleweight Andrey Sirotkin VacantVacantVacant
MiddleweightMagomed MadievVacantVacantVacant
Super WelterweightVacantTrương Đình HoàngVacantVacant
Welterweight Tewa Kiram Xing-Xin YangVacantVacant
Super LightweightVacantWoo-Min WonVacantVacant
LightweightPavel MalikovDeiner BerrioVacantVacant
Super FeatherweightMuhamad RidhwanMikhail AlexeevVacantVacant
FeatherweightValery TretyakovNam-Joon LeeJames MokogintaVacant
Super BantamweightRuben ManakaneWulan TuolehaziVacantVacant
BantamweightXinghua WangVacantVacantVacant
Super FlyweightVacant Mikhail Aloyan VacantVacant
FlyweightYutthana KaensaVacantVacantVacant
Light FlyweightVacantVacantVacantVacant
MinimumweightVacantVacantVacantVacant

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References

  1. ↑ "EPBC: About us". EPBC. Retrieved 2016-05-18.
  2. ↑ Robert J.B. Lenhardt (2016-03-18). "MBC Request for WBC Affiliation". WBC. 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. 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.
  8. ↑ "Cambodian boxer claims WBA Asia belt - Khmer Times". 20 May 2019.
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