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Key facts
- Abbreviation
- WBA
- Formation
- 1921 ; 105 years ago ( 1921 ) (as NBA) 23 August 1962 ; 63 years ago ( 1962-08-23 ) (as WBA)
- Type
- Non-profit institution
- Purpose
- Boxing sanctioning organization
- Headquarters
- Panama City , Panama
- Region served
- Worldwide
- President
- Gilberto Mendoza Jr.
- Main organ
- General Assembly
- Website
- wbaboxing .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
World Boxing Association – WBA Official Site
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Wikidata facts
- Headquarters
- Panama City
- Sport
- boxing
- Official website
- www.wbaboxing.com/es
- Image
- WBA CHAMPIONSHIP BELT.jpg
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- Commons category
- World Boxing Association
- topic's main category
- Category:World Boxing Association
- inception
- 1962-00-00
- social media followers
- 128945
- short name
- WBA
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Encyclopedic overview
The World Boxing Association (WBA), formerly known as the National Boxing Association (NBA), is an international professional boxing organization based in Panama. The WBA awards its world championship title at the professional level.
Founded in the United States in 1921 by 13 state representatives as the NBA, it is the oldest regulating fights. In 1962, it changed its name in recognition of boxing's growing popularity around the world and began to admit other nations as members. By 1975, a majority of its members were Latin American nations and the organization headquarters was moved to Panama City, Panama. It moved again in the 1990s to Venezuela before returning to Panama in 2007.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “World Boxing Association” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.