Shortcut: WP:BOXING

WikiProject Boxing is a WikiProject which aspires to comprehensively cover and standardize articles involving anything boxing related.

Contents 1 Scope 2 Activities in Progress 3 Announcements 4 Parentage 5 Descendant Wikiprojects 6 Participants 7 Similar Wikiprojects

[edit] Scope

This Wikiproject aims to describe a template for new articles about boxing, and to unify currently existing articles.

[edit] Activities in Progress

• If you would like to participate, you can simply start by editing any boxing article, or join the project below and/or contribute to the discussion on the talk page.
• If you find an article without an image, please list it at Requested pictures.
• If you are looking for something to do, you can take a look at Requested boxing articles.
• Cleanup

1. Rene Arredondo
2. Jesús Chávez
3. Julio César Chávez
4. Clinton Woods
5. Damaen Kelly
6. The War
7. Kiko Martinez

• Assess: Zab Judah, Roman Greenberg, Yuri Foreman, Dmitry Salita

Useful tags:

• If you find, create, or contribute to a boxing article, please paste {{WikiProjectBoxing}} onto the article's talk page and add a Wikilink to the page on Boxing.
• If you find a stub article that has not yet been marked as a stub, add {{boxing-stub}} to the bottom of the article. It will automatically be included in the boxing stubs category, where you can find plenty of stub articles to expand if you are itching to do something.

Goals:

• To standardize the boxing articles in Wikipedia.
• To improve Wikipedia coverage of boxing by adding, expanding and improving boxing articles.
• To serve as a central point of discussion for issues related to Wikipedia boxing articles.
• Place all eligible boxers in Category:World boxing champions.
• Complete List of lightweight boxing champions.
• Complete List of male boxers.
• Complete List of WBA world champions.
• Complete List of WBC world champions.
• Complete Boxing in the 1990s, and Boxing in the 2000s
• Find ways to link to orphans and near-orphans (e.g. Puerto Rican-Mexican boxing rivalry, club fighter).
• Nearly every boxing article needs citation.

[edit] Announcements

→ Help pick the next article for collaboration.

→ Discussion about our scope and the use of the project template is ongoing!

• FA Noms: List of current world boxing champions

• Review: Boxing | Floyd Mayweather Jr.

• New: List of welterweight boxing champions | List of super welterweight boxing champions | List of middleweight boxing champions | List of super middleweight boxing champions | List of light heavyweight boxing champions | Lakva Sim | Cristian Mijares | Julio Cesar Garcia | Orlando Salido | Katsunari Takayama | Steve Molitor | List of IBF world champions | Charity Lords of the Ring

• Expand: | Ike Quartey | Joel Casamayor | Jean Marc Mormeck | Odlanier Solis | Yuriorkis Gamboa

• Collaborate: Boxing

• Discuss:

• Annotate: Muhammad Ali | Sugar Ray Robinson | Oscar de la Hoya | Jack Dempsey | Rocky Marciano | Joe Louis | George Foreman | Roy Jones, Jr. | Marvin Hagler | Lennox Lewis | Evander Holyfield | Manny Pacquiao | Erik Morales

• Assess: Gavin Rees

• Create: Diego Corrales vs. Jose Luis Castillo | Mike Tyson vs. James "Buster" Douglas | Marvin Hagler vs. Sugar Ray Leonard | Riddick Bowe vs. Evander Holyfield

Did you know

• 28 Nov 2009 – A fact from Del Fontaine (talk) appeared on the main page.

Copyright problems

• 28 Nov 2009 – The copyvio tag was removed from Bare-knuckle boxing (talk).

Other news

• 30 Nov 2009 – The new book-class is released. See the Signpost article and the setup guide for details.
• 30 Nov 2009 – A new edition of the Wikipedia Signpost is out.
• 28 Nov 2009 – A new database dump is available.
• 6 Nov 2009 – The cleanup listings from WolterBot have updated.

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[edit] Parentage

The parent of this WikiProject is the WikiProject Sports.

[edit] Descendant Wikiprojects

No descendant WikiProjects have been defined.

[edit] Participants

This is a list of Wikipedians who are committed to this WikiProject. Please, feel free to join by clicking edit on the right, and signing your name at the bottom of the list with four tildes (~~~~), with an optional comment. Also add this template to your user page if you want to, type {{User WikiProject Boxing}} to produce:

• Rob Graziano | TAlk Descendant of Dom Graziano (Friend of Rocky Graziano)
• Gordon24fan| Talk
• Yappakoredesho | Talk
• Antonio The Prinz Martin | Talk
• ArcTheLad | Talk
• Maya Levy talk
• Andman8 | TAlk
• Watermint | talk
• Mumblio 23:07, 28 August 2006 (UTC)I'm a boxing writer and fan. Wikifanatic friend asked me to get involved.
• jackboogie | talk
• PassionoftheDamon 05:34, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
• RebSkii 06:29, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
• --Vintagekits 21:23, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
• Quadzilla99 22:06, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
• Claudevsq 14:20, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
• 1fletch 14:00, 30 August 2007 (UTC) I'm also an aspiring boxing writer. I've written a page for the Benn/Eubank rivalry.
• east.718
• FoxLad 13:25, 21 October 2007 (UTC) I also like boxing.
• Marty Rockatansky 03:10, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
• Andy mccabe50
• Lil'Khan | Talk I watch & edit the pages of the Khan Brothers & made the boxer Haroon Khan 's Page
• Twelsht | Talk
• The K.O. King:Boxer (talk) 18:09, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
• Jedi Kasra (talk) 20:09, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
• Mike SearsonBoxer and trainer.--Mike Searson (talk) 07:08, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
• Dan the Man1983 | talk Im a big Boxing fan and have done some work on a few boxing articles lately.
• diamonddannyboy Coach
• Jimbo^[online] 22:28, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
• Rvk41 (talk) 04:45, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
• DreamsAreMadeOf (talk) 01:32, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
• Fastcarnyc (talk) 00:34, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
• Wepesq (talk) 17:01, 26 July 2008 (UTC)wepesq
• Notjamesbond (talk) 13:45, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
• BillyJack193 (talk) 18:45, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
• BlackpoolKickboxer2008, 10:09, 27 April 2009 (UTC))
• s73v3n17:28, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
• Unak78| Talk 08:09, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
• theuxed| Talk 06:45, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
• Adamdaley Have done some boxing in the past and would like to start again. Adamdaley (talk) 07:43, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

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