Women Boxing Archive Network (WBAN) championship belts,  are designed to recognize the "best of the best" of the sport's championship title holders.

We do not perform as a sanctioning body and no sanctioning fees are paid to us for the WBAN Recognition award. 

 When there is a world title fight that is considered the "Best of the Best", and the promoter is interested in adding this prestigous award to that fight---WBAN presents the matchup to the Selection board members. 

The board consists of three independent members, and the majority of the vote of these three members will be the final word on approving or disapproving a WBAN Recognition award [The WBAN Belt].

The current independent group of the sport's advocates and website contributors, presently include Bernie McCoy, photo journalist Lori Steinhorst, and senior editor, Brian Ackley.

The computer-based WBAN rankings produced monthly by WBAN contributor, Dee Williams, will be relied on extensively as a means of evaluating the potential of each championship bout for recognition by WBAN.

In order to insure complete impartiality, neither Fox nor Williams will be included as part of the selection group and there will be no discussion of the recognition of potential championship bouts between the selection group and Fox and Williams. For a disclaimer on WBAN and its role in the sport visit: Link.

It has long been our feeling that, given the number of championship belts, another level of special recognition is necessary in the sport and the WBAN belt is one way to fill that need.

We hope that this highly prestigious award will recognize and represent a gold standard for the sport of women's boxing.

We hope this is just one of many steps that WBAN and the boxing community will initiate to enhance and promote the future success of the sport of women's boxing. Never before has the talent level in the sport reached the levels it has achieved today and, hopefully, the WBAN belt will represent an unbiased and thoughtful recognition of those female fighters who truly are the 'Best of the Best."

WBAN highly anticipates that the "history First" for the WBAN Belt award belts will take place in 2008.

If you are a promoter and would like to have WBAN consider this special WBAN Recognition award for a World Title bout and where the fight has been officially sanctioned by a federation.   contact WBAN.