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Boxing guide: The difference between organizations WBA, WBC, IBF and WBO
The World Boxing Organization (WBO)
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WBO is the youngest of the four and based in Puerto Rico. Founded in 1988, its first title bout stood between Tommy “Motor City Cobra” Hearns and James Kinchen for the vacant WBO super middleweight title.
The organization initially struggled to gain credibility and recognition as a major sanctioning body.
In 2000, 12 years after its foundation, the WBA finally gave the same recognition to WBO champions as it did to champs from WBC and IBF.
By 2004 the WBC began naming WBO champions on its ranking listings, but IBF did not recognize the organization until 2007, almost 20 years after WBO was founded.
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