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Welcome to the Oriental and Pacific Boxing
Federation website
The Oriental and Pacific Boxing Federation (OPBF) was founded in 1955.
In turn, it was a co-founder in 1963 of the World Boxing Council (WBC) and is
one of 11 continental federations comprising the WBC, operating under its
long-serving president Jose Sulaiman Chagnon.
Members of the OPBF regional group are Australia, Fiji, Guam, Hawaii, Hong Kong,
Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Mongolia, New Zealand, Philippines, PAMA (Professional
Association of Martial Arts, representing boxers from several Asian republics of
the former USSR), Republic of China, Samoa, Thailand and Tonga.
OPBF secretariat details are:
Address: 19 Devon Avenue, Heathmont, Victoria, Australia 3135.
Telephone: 61 3 9879 2090.
Fax: 61 3 9870 7655.
E-mail: fquill@iprimus.com.au
Website: http://www.opbf.net/
Officers of the OPBF are: President, Frank Quill, Australia; Vice-President,
Eric Buhain, Philippines; Secretary-General/Treasurer, Malcolm Bulner,
Australia; and, Advisor, Attorney Dominador R. Cepeda Jr., Philippines.
Commissioners serving with OPBF member bodies include, among others: Mr Shigeru
Kojima, Executive Secretary of the Japan Boxing Commission; Major Lee Won Bok,
Secretary-General of the Korea Boxing Commission; Mr Emnanuel C. Flores, Chief
of the Boxing and Wrestling Division of the Philippine Government’s Games and
Amusements Board; Mr Chandru Lalwani, OPBF/WBC Representative in Indonesia; Mr
Taznaa Zanashir, President of the Mongolia Boxing Commission; Mr Robert M.
“Bobby” Lee, President of the Hawaii Boxing Council; Mr Andrei Chistov,
Vice-President of PAMA; and Mr Carrick Belton, President of the New Zealand
Professional Boxing Association (Inc).
Elsewhere in the this website, you will find news reports of OPBF title bouts,
reports of world-title bouts in which Asian-Orient zone boxers figure, the OPBF
ratings, the OPBF Rules and Regulations, a detailed history of the OPBF, and a
useful directory.
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