What is on the line
The Green Belt
The World Boxing Council's amateur title: the same sanctioning body as the professional green and gold, the same colours, and a result that stays on a boxer's record long after the weekend.
Where it comes from
The World Boxing Council's green and gold is one of the most recognisable objects in professional sport. The Green Belt is its amateur counterpart, awarded on the same principle: that a boxer should have something to fight for that outlasts the night.
It started in Los Angeles as a WBC Amateur programme, giving club boxers a sanctioned title within reach of a normal competitive season. The format crossed to France, where it settled into a circuit of regional editions and built a reputation among coaches as an honest test: short cards, real matchmaking, no padding.
This is the first Belgian edition. It runs inside the Brussels International Tattoo Convention, in a dedicated arena with its own programme, across two afternoons in November.
What it opens
A Green Belt is not a professional licence and does not pretend to be one. What it is, is a sanctioned result on a record: the kind national selectors read, and the kind a promoter looks at when a boxer decides to turn over. Several winners from the French editions have since boxed professionally.
- Belts on the line 6, one for each division
- Decided Sunday 15 November, across both afternoons of boxing
- Open to Youth, junior and senior boxers, by weight class
- Sanctioned by Organised by 12 Rounds, WBC Belgium Amateurs, LFB and VBL
Past champions
This is the first Belgian edition, so this section fills in on the Sunday evening. From edition two onward it becomes the archive.
Six belts, one weekend
Every bout on the card leads somewhere. The running order says which ones lead here.