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Key facts
- Abbreviation
- WBC
- Formation
- 1963 ; 63 years ago ( 1963 )
- Type
- Non-profit institution
- Purpose
- Boxing sanctioning organization
- Headquarters
- Mexico City , Mexico
- Region served
- Worldwide
- President
- Mauricio Sulaimán
- Main organ
- General Assembly
- Website
- wbcboxing .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- international sport governing body
- Headquarters
- Mexico City
- Sport
- boxing
- Official website
- wbcboxing.com/en
- Image
- WBC I OMB 2014-01-17 17-19.jpg
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- operating area
- Earth
- inception
- 1963-00-00
- topic's main category
- Category:World Boxing Council
- social media followers
- 18800
- Commons category
- World Boxing Council
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Encyclopedic overview
The World Boxing Council (WBC) is an international professional boxing organization. It is among the four major organizations which sanction professional boxing bouts, alongside the World Boxing Association (WBA), International Boxing Federation (IBF) and World Boxing Organization (WBO).
Many historically high-profile bouts have been sanctioned by the organization with various notable fighters having been recognised as WBC world champions. All four organizations recognise the legitimacy of each other and each have interwoven histories dating back several decades.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “World Boxing Council” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.