International Boxing Federation
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| align="center" | Middleweight || align="center" | [[Sebastian Sylvester]] || align="center" | 2009 Sep 19 || align="center" | [[IBF Middleweight Champion|Title Lineage]] || align="center" | [[IBF Middleweight Title Fights|Title Fights]] | | align="center" | Middleweight || align="center" | [[Sebastian Sylvester]] || align="center" | 2009 Sep 19 || align="center" | [[IBF Middleweight Champion|Title Lineage]] || align="center" | [[IBF Middleweight Title Fights|Title Fights]] | ||
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| − | | align="center" | Junior Middleweight || align="center" | [[ | + | | align="center" | Junior Middleweight || align="center" | [[Cornelius Bundrage]] || align="center" | 2010 Aug 7 || align="center" | [[IBF Light Middleweight Champion|Title Lineage]] || align="center" | [[IBF Light Middleweight Title Fights|Title Fights]] |
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| align="center" | Welterweight || align="center" | [[Jan Zaveck]] || align="center" | 2009 Dec 11 || align="center" | [[IBF Welterweight Champion|Title Lineage]] || align="center" | [[IBF Welterweight Title Fights|Title Fights]] | | align="center" | Welterweight || align="center" | [[Jan Zaveck]] || align="center" | 2009 Dec 11 || align="center" | [[IBF Welterweight Champion|Title Lineage]] || align="center" | [[IBF Welterweight Title Fights|Title Fights]] | ||
Revision as of 16:47, 8 August 2010
- International Boxing Federation (IBF)/United States Boxing Association (USBA)
- This sanctioning body was created in 1983.
- Current President, Daryl J. Peoples
- Official Web site
* History of Championship bouts
The belt was created by Bob Lee after he did not receive the approval to be nominated president of the WBA. He then decided to leave the organization and create this new title. At first it was not seen as a major belt but Larry Holmes won the title and defended it many times, bringing the belt to the mainstream and to the elite prominence it has in the sport today.
In the late 1990s the IBF was investigated by the FBI for corruption and its president Bob Lee was sent to federal prison for taking bribes and tax evasion.
