Super Boxing League

See also: Super Fight League

The Super Boxing League is the first professional boxing league in India.^[1][2] British businessman Bill Dosanjh and former boxing champion Amir Khan founded Super Boxing League in 2017^[3] after Super Fight League's first season. The league is organised with the support of World Boxing Council and Professional Boxing Organisation India.^[4] The first season had 8 teams comprising both men and women pugilists.^[5]

Super Boxing League

Sport	Boxing
Founded	2017
Founder	Bill Dosanjh, Amir Khan
First season	2017
Owner(s)	Bill Dosanjh
Motto	Hit Harder
No. of teams	8
Country	India
Most recent champion(s)	Maratha Yoddhas
Most titles	Maratha Yoddhas (1 title)
Broadcaster(s)	Sony ESPN
Official website	Official website

Teams

List of all participating teams.^[6]

Team	Location	Owners
Delhi Gladiators	Delhi	Shiva Vij, Varun Jain (N V Group), Sushant Singh Rajput
Haryana Warriors	Haryana	Arun Gupta
Maratha Yoddhas	Pune	Ajeenkya Patil, Riteish Deshmukh
Mumbai Assassins	Mumbai	Nitin Jadhav, Sohail Khan
North East Tigers	Northeast India	Amit Aggarwal, Prakash Johari, Arun Malhotra
OPM Punjab Sultans	Punjab	Deep Malhotra, Sunny Leone, Gauravh Malhotra, Gautam Malhotra
Bahubali Boxers	South India	Mohammed Esa, Vishal Siwappa, Suniel Shetty, Rana Daggubati, Jonaid Bin Tajuddin Mohammed, Shobhu Yarlagadda, Avi Mittal
UP Terminators	Uttar Pradesh	Jaskaran Puniyani and Navraj Jaura, Kanika Kapoor

Scoring system

The Super Boxing League follows a special points scoring system.^[7]

Bout outcome	Points awarded
Knockout	6
Technical knockout	4
Decision	3
Draw	1

2017 SBL season

The first edition of SBL was held from July 7 to August 12, 2017, at Siri Fort, New Delhi. Maratha Yoddhas beat Haryana Warriors to become the inaugural champions. While Sukhdeep Singh of Warriors was the best boxer of the league and Sandeep Chikara of Yoddhas was given the title of best knockout of the league.^{[citation needed]}

See also

• Ram Singh