The Spanish Boxing Federation is celebrating 100 years in great form

Now 100 years have passed and one day there will be a meeting at City of Barcelona that would change the history of boxing Spain. According to various media of the time, including ‘Sports world’ and the lost ‘Sports Day’ On August 30, 1922, an important meeting took place in the Catalan capital in what was then called Spanish Federation of Defense Sports.

In the pages of World of sports At that time it was highlighted that “the Spanish Federation of Defense Sports is already a body in a state of decay and the boxing clubs that are part of it, more out of necessity than charity, are looking for a way to bury it for . several hours. Finally, after a thousand wanderings, they reunited and the hole they had dug for the new tree of Spanish Boxing Federation It served as a pit for the Defense Sports Federation, this Federation that started without clubs and ended without boards”.

CALENDAR UNTIL THE END OF THE FEBOX YEAR

09/25 – 10/05: Men’s and Women’s Junior European Championships in Montesilvano (Italy). Global Competition
03/10 – 09/10: International Young Men’s and Women’s Boxing (Benidorm, Alicante). Global Competition
10/11 – 10/23: Women’s Elite European Championships in Budva (Montenegro). Global Competition
10/17 – 10/23: Spanish Youth and Junior Championships, men and women (Crevillent, Alicante). National Competition
11/13 – 11/27: Youth World Championships, men and women (La Nucía, Alicante). Global Competition
In addition, they must finish placing a bad national competition on a date, such as the Iberdrola Cup and the President Cup

An information in which it was emphasized that “the various clubs that in their activity give life to our boxing, have long had a close relationship and worked in common agreement about the future orientation of the Federation, as important for boxing as both boxers” , which led to the “union that changed its name to the Spanish Boxing Federation”.

is chosen to Don Lorenzo Ramonet as the first president, with a meeting where the first secretary was present Ramon Larruya collaborator of Mundo Deportivo, who established the first meeting of the new federation at 10:00 pm in the place of Barcelona Boxing Club.

EVOLUTION OF LICENSES

2017: 10,108 total (8,049 males and 2,059 females)
2018: 11,880 total (9,620 males and 2,260 females)
2019: 12,176 total (9,619 males and 2,557 females)
2020: 4,396 total (3,602 males and 794 females)
2021: 9,369 total (7,844 males and 1,525 females)
*Consider that the years 2020 and 2021 were affected by the Covid pandemic

To celebrate the centenary, the FEBox will perform various actions and commemorations until the next December 31.

The President of the Spanish Boxing Federation, Felipe Martínez, is excited about the centenary celebration: “Until the end of the year, our Federation will enter what we call Centenary time. I think it will be an emotional and tiring few months, having to combine all the Centenary events with superlative and ongoing boxing activity, a hallmark of our management, but it will certainly be worth it.”

Regarding the activity in the coming months, Martínez is particularly pleased to bring to Spain, as part of the commemorative events, some World Championships for the first time, in this case in the Youth category. “It was a very hard ‘battle’, but the dream came true. We wanted to end the Centenary with a competition that will be remembered for a long time and, after a lot of work, we managed to secure the organization in our country. Finally, the celebration of the Olympic Boxing World Championships in Spain should put an end to a Centenary year in which other historical milestones have also been achieved, such as Laura Fuertes’ medal at the World Championships in Istanbul or the five medals from in the Men’s European Championships”, concluded the president of the veteran entity.

NATIONAL TEAM TRAINING

Male Elite: 18 parts (7 of them sub-22)
Elite Women: 12 (6 of them under 22)
Boy: 1 permanent + 15 will go to rallies
Girl: 3 permanent + 1 that goes to rallies
Junior Male: 4 + 5 concentration
Junior Girls: 3 internal + 1 punctual + 2 in concentrations

This Youth Category World Championships, which will bring almost 1,000 people to our country, will be held in Lto Nucia (Alicante)between November 13 and 27.

The possibility to hold this Championship in Spain and the good results for the boxers confirm the good moment Spanish boxing is going through, with a strong team; aAlthough the Covid pandemic has slowed down the good dynamics that seem to be picking up the speed of cruising again, because fortunately, as RTVE pointed out Philip Martinez, “Boxing is coming back after tough years”

CHRONOLOGY GOOD MOMENTS

August 1922: birth and constitution
December 1922 (day 11): First Spanish Professional Boxing Championship of this entity (Joaquín Valls vs Pedro Sáez)
February 1924 (day 3): first European Championship with Spanish participation (Ricardo Alís in Barcelona)
May 1924 (26-28): first Spanish Amateur Boxing Championships
July 1924: first Olympic Games with Spanish participation
October 1925 (30): first European Champion of Spanish boxing (Antonio Ruiz, in Madrid)
May 1926 (18): Uzcudun European Champion (Barcelona)
June 1929 (18): First World Championship with Spanish participation (Gregorio Vidal, in New York)
November 1930 (30): Uzcudun and Carnera, before more than 70,000 people in Montjuïc
March 1931 (25): First World Championship in Spain (Víctor Ferrand, in Barcelona)
June 1935 (01): First Spanish World Champion (Baltasar Sangchili, Valencia)
May 1947: Luis Martínez Zapata, European Amateur Boxing Champion (Dublin)
July 1968 (24): José Legrá, World Champion
November 1971 (05): Pedro Carrasco defeated Mando Ramos (Madrid)
June 1971: Juan Francisco Rodríguez, European Amateur Boxing Champion (Madrid)
August-September 1972: Enrique Rodríguez Cal, Bronze Medal at the Olympic Games (Munich)
August 1974: Enrique Rodríguez Cal, Bronze Medal at the World Amateur Boxing Championships (Havana)
September 1974 (21): Perico Fernández, World Champion (Roma)
May 1976 (05): José Durán, World Champion (Tokyo)
June 1976 (30): Miguel Velázquez, World Champion (Madrid)
December 1977 (17): Cecilio Lastra, World Champion (Torrelavega)
July-August 1992: Faustino Reyes, Olympic Games silver medalist (Barcelona)
July-August 1996: Rafael Lozano, Olympic Games bronze medalist (Atlanta)
January 1999 (29): Javier Castillejo, World Champion (Madrid)
April 1999 (23): José Antonio López Bueno, World Champion (Zaragoza)
September-October 2000: Rafael Lozano, Olympic Games Silver Medalist (Sydney)
Last months of 2002: Jorge Mata, World Champion (from interim to regular)
November 2003 (06): María Jesús Rosa is declared the first Spanish World Champion (Alcobendas)
June 2009 (20): Gabriel Campillo, World Champion (Sunchales)
August 2013 (18): Kiko Martínez, World Champion (Atlantic City)
June 2018 (22): Joana Patrana, World Champion (Alcobendas)
June 2019: Gabriel Escobar, European Olympic Boxing Champion (Minsk)
October 2021: Rafael Lozano Jr won the first gold medal in the lower category of Spanish boxing, at the World Championships of Young Category (Budva)
October-November 2021: Enmanuel Reyes, Bronze Medal at the World Amateur Boxing Championships (Belgrade)
May 2022: Laura Fuertes wins first medal at Spanish Women’s Boxing World Championships (Istanbul)
May 2022: Martín Molina, European Olympic Boxing Champion (Yerevan). Spain won 5 medals