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| align="center" | Light Heavyweight || align="center" | [[Bernard Hopkins]] || align="center" | 2011 May 21 || align="center" | [[WBC Light Heavyweight Champion|Title Lineage]] || align="center" | [[WBC Light Heavyweight Title Fights|Title Fights]] | | align="center" | Light Heavyweight || align="center" | [[Bernard Hopkins]] || align="center" | 2011 May 21 || align="center" | [[WBC Light Heavyweight Champion|Title Lineage]] || align="center" | [[WBC Light Heavyweight Title Fights|Title Fights]] | ||
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| align="center" | Middleweight || align="center" | [[Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.]] || align="center" | 2011 Jun 4 || align="center" | [[WBC Middleweight Champion|Title Lineage]] || align="center" | [[WBC Middleweight Title Fights|Title Fights]] | | align="center" | Middleweight || align="center" | [[Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.]] || align="center" | 2011 Jun 4 || align="center" | [[WBC Middleweight Champion|Title Lineage]] || align="center" | [[WBC Middleweight Title Fights|Title Fights]] | ||
Revision as of 12:17, 18 December 2011
- The World Boxing Council (WBC) was formed in 1963 and is based in Mexico.
- President: José Sulaimán Chagnón
- Official site
History
The World Boxing Council was initially established by 11 countries: the United States, Argentina, United Kingdom, France, Mexico, Philippines, Panama, Chile, Peru, Venezuela and Brazil plus Puerto Rico, met in Mexico City on February 14, 1963, upon invitation of the then President of Mexico, Adolfo López Mateos, to form an international boxing organization that would achieve the unity of all commissions of the world to control the expansion of boxing.
The groups that historically had recognized several boxers as champions included the New York State Athletic Commission, the National Boxing Association, the European Boxing Union and the British Boxing Board of Control but these groups for the most part lacked the all-encompassing "international" status they boasted of.
The WBC is one of four major organizations recognized by IBHOF which sanction world championship boxing bouts, alongside the IBF, WBA and WBO.
Affiliated organizations
- World Boxing Council Muay Thai (WBC Muay Thai)
- Oriental and Pacific Boxing Federation (OPBF)
- North American Boxing Federation (NABF)
- European Boxing Union (EBU)
- Asian Boxing Council (ABCO)
- African Boxing Union (ABU)
- Caribbean Boxing Federation (CABOFE)
- Central American Boxing Federation (FECARBOX)
- CIS and Slovenian Boxing Bureau (CISBB)
- South American Boxing Federation (FESUBOX)
- Eurasian Boxing Council (EBC)
- Baltic Sea Championship (WBC Baltic)
