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About WSB
The WSB is a boxing competition without headguards or vests, with professional-style scoring, three judges and one referee and one supervisor. A WSB match consists of five bouts, with each bout consisting of five rounds of three minutes each. The team with most wins from five bouts wins the match.

There are five weight categories:


 * Bantamweight (50 - 54kg)
 * Lightweight (57 - 61kg)
 * Middleweight (68 - 73kg)
 * Light heavyweight (80 - 85kg)
 * Heavyweight (+91kg)

Each team has a minimum squad of 10 boxers and a maximum of 20 boxers, that is a minimum of two boxers in each weight category. The team is made up of both national boxers and foreign boxers, with at least three foreign boxers required in a squad of ten, up to six in a squad of 20.

The World Series of Boxing is an initiative of AIBA, the International Boxing Association, which is the international governing body for the sport of boxing recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

Boxers
The International Boxing Association AIBA comprises 195 member federations. Each of these federations can play a role in providing boxers to franchisees because they have trained and developed the best amateur boxers during their careers as they work towards the ultimate objective of representing their country at the Olympic Games.

In many cases the National Federations also have extensive facilities for the training and development of their amateur boxers. Subject to individual negotiation on a case-by-case basis between the franchisee and the relevant National Federation, these training facilities may be made available by the National Federation to its local franchisee on a commercial basis. This may enable the franchisee to manage the training and development requirements of its boxers.

Under the provisions of their contracts, the franchisee will be obliged to deduct a percentage of the boxer's salary payable to WSB SA. WSB SA will in turn pass that commission on, without deduction, to the relevant National Federation that trained and developed the specific boxer. The purpose of this commission payment is to provide the National Federations with a revenue stream as compensation for the resources that the National Federation has invested to train and develop the boxer.

Individual Championships
In the culmination of the inaugural World Series of Boxing season, the top two boxers in each of the five weight categories will compete for the Individual Championship titles in the city of Guiyang, China on May 27-28.

Some of the boxers competing in the Individual Championships are already WSB champions with their teams, others have spent the past two months preparing intensively just for these title fights. But all the boxers will have to adapt as they face each other over seven three-minute rounds for the first time. In addition to the coveted WSB champion's belt and a prize of 20,000 US dollars, the Individual Champions will also walk away with the first five qualification places for the London 2012 Olympic Games.

Team Finals
Paris United vs. Astana Arlans

Day 1: 2-3

Day 2: 4-1

Overall: 6-4

Bantamweight

 * (WP 2:1) Kanat ABUTALIPOV def. Nordine OUBAALI

Lightweight

 * (WP 2:1) Zhimin WANG def. Yerzhan MUSSAFIROV

Middleweight

 * (WP 3:0) Sergiy DEREVYANCHENKO def. Soltan MIGITINOV

Light Heavyweight

 * (WP 3:0) Abdelhafid BENCHABLA def. Ludovic GROGUHE

Heavyweight

 * (WP 3:0) Clemente RUSSO def. Magomedrasul MEDZHIDOV