UBA

• The Universal Boxing Association (UBA) was a mere ranking list founded in July 1985, by the boxing promoter and then USA Network employee Charles Jay (a.k.a. Chuck Covello).
• The UBA got relevance in June 1987, when its alleged president, the former boxer and retired businessman from Cincinnati Dick Burton, tried to sanction the 15-round heavyweight fight between Michael Spinks and Gerry Cooney as "for the vacant UBA title".
• The UBA very first fight occurred on 28 September 1987, when Manuel Batista won the vacant super-featherweight title beating Jose Vidal by decision in 15 rounds. Both Batista and Vidal were from Dominican Republic and the fight were held in Santo Domingo.
• In January 1988, Burton traveled to Johannesburg to offer the UBA membership to the South African Boxing Board of Control, when it still existing an international sporting boycott to South Africa because its Apartheid sport policy.
• From 1991 to 1993, it existed an Argentinan version of UBA that was founded in Buenos Aires by boxing promoters Victor Hugo Fernández and Nelson Rivera. They organized a fight for its vacant heavyweight title on 18 May 1991, in Moscow, between Marcelo Victor Figueroa, from Argentina, and Andrei Oreshkin, from the Soviet Union. (Figueroa won by KO in 7 rounds).
• Between 2005 and 2008, boxing promotor Dave Escalet revived some UBA titles for some of the fights organized by his enterprise Fistacuff Productions.