I was privileged to act as the boxing commissioner , on behalf of the Australian National Boxing Federation, for a historic night of boxing in the Armenian Capital of Yerevan, at the recent IBO Bantamweight Championship defence by Vic Darchinyan against Evans Mbamba of South Africa. Mbamba had an impressive record ...Read More

Welcome to the new website of the Australian National Boxing Federation (ANBF). This new website has been sometime in the making and replaces our previous website that closed on 31 June 2011. The previous ANBF website (which was our website) was developed many years ago through the foresight and work of ...Read More

The upcoming Annual General Meeting of the ANBF is to be held in Sydney on Saturday 22 October 2011. There are expected to be many issues discussed and decided. This meeting is open to all State members of the ANBF. For information please contact the ANBF Secretary for details.

In April 2010 the ANBF President, John McDougall (shown opposite) wrote an open letter to the boxing industry and followers on the history and virtues of the Australian Title. The new ANBF website will be used to publish articles and letters of this type, which would otherwise not receive the level of ...Read More

The Australian National Boxing Federation (ANBF) was formed in 1965, firstly as the Australian Boxing Federation (ABF) but years later adding National to it’s title. The architect of the formation was leading trainer Jack Rennie. Jack, along with other prominent boxing people of the day felt the need for a governing body ...Read More