Enough to know what you are looking at

Amateur boxing is the Olympic form of the sport. Bouts are short — three rounds, usually of three minutes — where a professional title fight can run twelve. Headguards are worn at some levels and by some categories and not others; the rule differs by governing body and by age group.

The biggest difference is what a result IS. A professional builds a win–loss record over a career of one-off fights. An amateur enters a TOURNAMENT and finishes in a PLACE — gold, silver, bronze, or out in an early round — and that placement is the record that matters. The summit is the Olympic Games, which is why every four years of amateur boxing is shaped around qualifying for them.

Club shows, where most boxers start. National championships, where a country picks its team. International tournaments — invitationals like the Strandja or the Bocskai, where national teams test themselves against each other. Continental championships (European, Asian, African, and so on), where those teams meet for a title. World championships. The Olympics.

A boxer's career on this site reads as a climb up that ladder: the same person at a national championship, then a Cup leg, then a continental final. That is what threading one person across many federations' documents is for.

Each country has a national federation that runs its championships and picks its team. Federations group into continental bodies — the EUBC in Europe, the ASBC in Asia, and their African, American and Oceanian equivalents — which run the continental championships.

At the top there is currently more than one world body. The IBA ran the sport for decades; World Boxing was founded in 2023 and is the body recognised for the Olympic programme. They run separate world championships under slightly different rulebooks, and many federations compete under both. Boxateur indexes all of them, and where their rules differ about something — a weight division, a result code — the site says which rulebook a result was boxed under rather than choosing one.

Boxers are matched by weight so that size decides nothing. Each sex has roughly a dozen divisions, from around 48 kg to over 90 kg, and the two world bodies draw the lines a little differently — one has a 63.5 kg class where the other has 65, one a 92 kg where the other has 90.

A boxer moves division when their body does, or when a rulebook does: many of the moves you will see on a career page are a federation renaming a class rather than a boxer changing weight. The rankings here merge a pair of near-identical classes only when boxers' own careers prove the two are one division.

Every bout has a red corner and a blue corner, and each boxer is identified by theirs for the length of the fight — on the scorecards, in the results, on the referee's card. The corner is not a seeding and says nothing about who is favoured; it is how the officials keep two boxers apart on paper.

The same red and blue follow a boxer through every page of this site: a result reads red beat blue, a judge's card reads red's score against blue's, and a boxer's own page turns everything round so that it reads from their side.

Five judges sit at ringside and score each round separately: ten points to the boxer who won the round, nine or fewer to the other, and a point can be taken away by the referee for a foul. At the end the rounds are added up and each judge has a winner; the majority of judges decides. A 5–0 is unanimous; a 3–2 is a split decision, which is where fans and officials disagree most.

Not every bout reaches the cards. The referee can stop a contest (RSC) when one boxer cannot safely continue, a knockout (KO) ends it outright, an accidental injury can end it early (RSC-I) or send it to the cards as they stand, a boxer can be disqualified (DSQ) or retire (ABD), and a walkover (WO) is a bout that never happened because one boxer did not appear. The site keeps the result code the federation printed, so you can see exactly how each fight ended.

Amateur boxing is split by age as well as by weight. Juniors and youth are the under-19 age groups, with their own championships and their own rules — shorter rounds, headguards, sometimes different weights. ELITE is the adult division: nineteen and over under most rulebooks, eighteen at some events, up to forty.

Boxateur holds elite results only. When a tournament boxes juniors and elite on the same card, only the elite bouts are indexed — the age grade is read off the federation's own document, not guessed.