!!!Boxsport Boxing: Boxing was introduced to Austria shortly before 1900. As in England, amateur and professional boxing associations were organized separately; boxing matches were at times officially forbidden until after World War I; the Oesterreichischer Amateurboxverband (Austrian Amateur Boxing Association, OeABV) comprised 48 clubs with 2545 members in 1993. !Publications 50 Jahre OeABV, 1971. %%language [Back to the Austrian Version|AEIOU/Boxsport|class='wikipage austrian'] %% [{FreezeArticle author='AEIOU' template='Lexikon_1995_englisch'}] [{ALLOW view All}][{ALLOW comment All}][{ALLOW edit FreezeAdmin}]