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Guides & how-to

Step-by-step help for applicants, admins and fans.

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Guides & how-toGetting ranked

Boxing rankings: how amateur and professional boxers get ranked at KBN

Boxers get a KBN ranking by submitting verified official bouts; amateur and professional boxing are ranked in separate tables by g...

11 Sept 2026 · 5 min👁29.2k ♥1.5k ↗774

Rankings explained

Reading the tables, movement, scopes and divisions.

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Rankings explainedDivisions

Women's rankings at KBN: separate tables, same rules

KBN ranks women in separate tables for every discipline, category and weight class, using exactly the same point formula, evidence...

10 Sept 2026 · 5 min👁20.9k ♥774 ↗410

Rankings explainedDivisions

Weight classes and divisions: why every class has its own ranking

A KBN division is one combination of discipline, category, gender and weight class, and each division has its own ranking. Points...

3 Sept 2026 · 5 min👁27.3k ♥846 ↗220

Fighter stories

Profiles, records and what the numbers say.

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Fighter storiesCareers

Moving up or down a weight class: health, performance and your ranking

Change weight class when your natural weight, health or performance says you should, and decide it with your coach and doctor. In...

26 Aug 2026 · 5 min👁10.2k ♥532 ↗112

Health & safety

Medical clearance, weigh-ins, minors and welfare.

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Nutrition

Health & safetyNutrition

Nutrition basics for fighters: fuelling training without extreme diets

Fighters perform and recover best when they eat enough energy for their training, with adequate protein, carbohydrates timed aroun...

13 Aug 2026 · 5 min👁31.7k ♥3.5k ↗1.1k

Weigh-in

Health & safetyWeigh-in

Weigh-in rules and the sample weight classes

A fighter is ranked in the class assigned from declared weight at registration. Weigh-in at the event checks the bout, not the ran...

23 Jun 2026 · 2 min👁32k ♥1.7k ↗441

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Boxing rankings: how amateur and professional boxers get ranked at KBN

11 Sept 2026 · Guides & how-to

Women's rankings at KBN: separate tables, same rules

10 Sept 2026 · Rankings explained

Weight classes and divisions: why every class has its own ranking

3 Sept 2026 · Rankings explained

Moving up or down a weight class: health, performance and your ranking

26 Aug 2026 · Fighter stories

Nutrition basics for fighters: fuelling training without extreme diets

13 Aug 2026 · Health & safety

Weigh-in rules and the sample weight classes

23 Jun 2026 · Health & safety

Questions & answers

Q&A

Short answers on points, applying, documents, rankings, officials, branches and privacy.

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