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Boxing

Boxing, in this article i discuss all about Boxing that you want to know about. The boxing news, classes, lessons, training, game values, professional boxers, amateur boxers and pro boxing fights. 

What is Boxing?

Boxing is the Sport where two fighter engaged for three to twelve Rounds of Fighting also called as Bouts. They Punch on each other with specific techniques and the rules are fixed. Boxing means Stamina for Punching. As it's an anaerobic sport therefore, huge amount of stamina is required for boxing. It's not like street fight where two fighters came and knockdown each other within few seconds as you need stamina to fight for almost 36 minutes where just 1 minutes break is given to both boxers.

Boxing Aim

All boxers need some special equipment before going to the ring. There are more than three types of boxers, one are called Amateur Boxers, Seconds are known as Professional Boxers like Floyd Mayweather jr. Amir Khan, Canelo who are professional fighters but the other and third type of boxers are Pro- boxers like Muhammad Waseem who fight for 8-10 Rounds (every round of 3 minutes) also called bouts.

Pro Boxer like Muhammad Waseem from Pakistan which is at (3-0-0) playing within Korea. Pakistan Wapda Coach lift him to Korea and challenge to korean professional boxer. Waseem tried his best and work very hard and harder and prove himself and beat Korean boxer and get his Korean Boxing Title.

Boxing Classes

Boxers are engaged in  fight with equal weights.  There are weight categories in Boxing. Following are weight classes;

Boxers having weight more than 200 lb, or 91 KG are called Heavyweight Boxers.

Boxers having weight ...              200 lb or 91 KG are called Cruiser Weight.

Boxers having weight ...              175 lb or 79 KG weight are in Light Heavyweight Category.

And who has weight .....             168 lb   or 76 KG weight are in Super Middle weight category.

And who has weight...                 160 lb or  72.5 KG weight are in Middle Weight Category.

And who has weight ..                154 lb  or 70 KG weight are in Super Welter Weight Category.

And who has weight about ...      147 lb or 67.5 KG are in Welterweight Category. 

 Super light weight   category             140 lb or 63.4 KG

 Light Weight category               135 lb or 61.2 KG 

 Super Featherweight                  130 lb or 59 KG

 Featherweight                             126 lb or 57.2 KG

 Super Bantamweight                  122 lb or 55.3 KG

 Bantam Weight                          118 lb or  53.5 KG

 Super Flyweight                         115 lb or 52.2 KG

 Flyweight                                   112 lb or 50.8 KG

 Light Flyweight                         108 lb or 49 KG

 Minimum Weight                       105 lb or 47.6 KG

 Light  Minimum Weight            102 lb or  46.3 KG

Above are all the Boxing Weight Classes where all boxers are divided and engaged into fights. Now i want to discuss the professional fighters associations. In this sports Almost seven World Associations are working. Where thousands of people work in this sport category. Its an International sport and a part of World Olympic Sports.

Boxing Associations & Organizations

Following are Organizations who are working in this sport category and provide Title Belts for boxers.

1. WBA       ...          World Boxing Association.
2. WBC       ...          World Boxing Council
3. IBF         ...           International Boxing Federation
4. WBO      .....         World Boxing Organization
5. BoxRec  ...            Boxing Records
6. Boxing News
7. The Ring

Above are the associations and organizations Names and their sites addresses. You can simply click on they to see their official sites.

Boxing Rules 

In this game, a referee is appointed between the boxers who see them carefully and pointed out the Foul Punches by the Boxers. The violation of the following rule may result in Foul, Points deductions and in warning by the fight referee.

• Fighter cannot punch without Gloves, Boxing Gloves are necessary in fight.
• Hit below the Belt will result in foul or warning from the referee.
• Hitting with shoulder, head or elbow etc.
• If the foul cause injury as the fight continued, referee may said to judges to deduct two points who cause injury.
• If a Boxer knockouts he has 10-20 seconds depending upon the fight (amateur or professional) to get back and stand on his feet accurately.
• Holding your opponent and hit at the same time.
• Getting your head below your opponent belt.
• You cannot spit out your mouth gum sheath for the purpose of getting rest, referee may take action on this violation.
• Your cannot punch on your opponent kidneys, back part of neck, head.
• If your opponent is on flour, you cannot hit him when its on flour, convas position.

Boxing Equipment

Following are the Essential equipment that are use during boxing training and sparring and fighting.

• Boxing Gloves
• Mouth Gum Sheath
• Kneeker
• Shoes
• Jump Rope
• Stop Watch
• Sand Bag
• Speed Ball
• Medicine Ball
• Some Weights
• Boxing Pads 

And others which are discussed in Boxing Equipment Article.

Amateur Boxing

Pakistan is the member of World Amateur Boxing Federation. In amateur fights Three to Four Rounds or bouts are selected of about Three Minutes. Amateur boxers wear Blue or Red Uniform during fight. Its the preparing part for boxers to get Experience for the future hard and professional fights. Amateur Boxers are not really get paid good because they don't selected by any organization. Professional Boxers earns great with respect to amateur fighters.

Professional Boxers

Boxers who are signed by the Word Boxing Organizations like WBA, WBO, IBF, THE RING etc are known as Professional. As they get huge amount of money from their fights are give best fights for the viewers. They are experience and well trained fighters.

Like Floyd Mayweather jr, Amir Khan, Canelo are professional fighters fight one to two times in the whole year with full preparation.

They are professional.