Amateur boxing is a variant of boxing practised at the collegiate level , at the Olympic Games , Pan American Games and Commonwealth Games , as well as many associations. Amateur boxing bouts are short in duration, comprising three rounds of three minutes in men, and four rounds of two minutes in women, each with a one-minute interval between rounds. Men's senior bouts changed in format from four two-minute rounds to three three-minute rounds on January 1, This type of competition prizes point-scoring blows, based on number of clean punches landed, rather than physical power. Also, this short format allows tournaments to feature several bouts over several days, unlike professional boxing , where fighters rest several months between bouts. A referee monitors the fight to ensure that competitors use only legal blows a belt worn over the torso represents the lower limit of punches — any boxer repeatedly landing "low blows" is disqualified.

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Americans loved boxing in the s and '30s. Every immigrant neighborhood had its champion, and boxing was a flag of racial or ethnic pride. According to writer Jack Newfield, "rivalries [were] built on ethnic tension, and you could get ten thousand people for a fight between two neighborhood heroes. Harry E. Winkler, correspondent for The Ring magazine from to , collected thousands of boxing images from this Golden Age.

The African Amateur Boxing Championships is the premier pan-continental annual competition for amateur boxing in Africa. The first edition of the tournament took place in From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.