The Pan Asian Boxing Association, PABA, is made up of institutions legally incorporated throughout the Central Asia, Eurasia, Orient, Far East-Asia, Oceania and Pan Pacific region to rule, control and supervise professional boxing in their jurisdiction.

The PABA shall promulgate and apply rules to guarantee its efficiency and uniformity to approve boxing matches under its control, and to regulate any other matter related to boxing.
The members of the PABA, by sole fact of being such members, accept all decisions related to the PABA championship matches and other matters contained in its Constitution, Bylaws and Regulations.

A PABA Champion recognized by this Association shall reign supreme in his category and must be ready to meet any rated challenger at all times.

The PABA shall adopt PABA Championship Belts as a distinctive symbol of the PABA champion in each category. These belts shall be awarded to the champion for the purpose of being exhibited at each of his match.

This Association establish and recognize PABA Championship matches in each weight category which is established in its regulations and shall recognize as title holders of same those professional boxers who have obtained such recognition under the PABA championship rules and regulation adopted by this Association.

The recognition of a professional boxer as a PABA champion in any of the weight categories may be suspended or revoked by this Association because of a proven violation of the Rules and Regulations which govern the PABA Championships, the Constitution and Bylaws of the PABA.

This Association may also penalize a PABA champion or any boxers rated in the PABA Ratings because of conduct which injures and good name, integrity and prestige of professional boxing or because of any act against the fundamental principles of ethics or morals of this sports duly proven by the PABA.

All PABA championship fights recognized by this Association shall be Twelve(12) round. Each round shall be last three(3) minutes with one(1) minute rest between round.

Nevertheless, this Association grants Eleven(11) round duration in its discretion when a local Commission or promoter requests sanction to hold a PABA championship match in conjunction with another regional entity's title for promotional purpose and or to hold a significant fight for boxing world at which our presence is desirable.

All PABA champions shall defend the title when required and as it has been established by the PABA Championship Rules and Regulations

A PABA Championship can only be obtained as the result of a match authorized by this Association.

No boxer recognized as PABA champion in any of the categories shall be permitted to hold more than one PABA title at the same time. In the event that PABA champion wins the fight of the other category title, he must relinquish one of the title within the ten(10) following days on which he obtained the new title.

Failure to present the document relinquishing the title within the ten(10) days after the fight shall be sufficient cause withdrawal of the recognition by the PABA as title holder of both categories.

A PABA champion shall not participate in a non-title bouts or in a bout for another entity unless he has been granted a Special Permit by the PABA.
In the event that a champion participates in bout without having been granted by the Special Permit, he shall automatically lose recognition as a PABA champion and in consequence the title respective category shall become vacant.

If a PABA champion who has been granted by Special Permission to participate in a non-title bout or a bout for another entity loses the bout, his PABA championship title shall be declared vacant.

Every PABA champion, except the Heavyweight champion, must defend his title at interval of no more than nine(9) months from the date on which the title was obtained, or from the date on which the last defence of the title was held against the leading available contender of his category.

The Heavyweight champion must defend his title at interval of no more than twelve(12) months from the date on which the title was obtained, or from the date on which the last defence of the title was held against the leading available contender of his category.

In the interim period between the mandatory defences a PABA champion is required to enter into minimum two(2) voluntary defences against any opponent selected from the list of the PABA's current Ratings.

When a boxer obtains the title of PABA champion in an elimination fight for a vacant title he must defend the title against the leading available contender of his category within no more than ninety(90) days from the date on which he obtained the title.

In the event that a PABA champion loses his title against a contender who was not the leading contender, the new champion must defend his title within no more than (90) days from the date on which he obtains the title against the leading available contender of his category.

Sanction
In case a PABA champion should fail to make his minimum number of the title defenses, the president of this Association, at his sole discretion, will order and grant an Interim championship match between most eligible and available contenders not only for the activation of the category but for the most benefit of contenders rated therein.

Priority and obligation
The Interim champion is entitled first priority to fight the champion's mandatory defense of his category.

Nevertheless, he may apply sanction to have his Interim title defense match by waiving the priority if he wises to do.
However his Interim title shall be vacant if he should not fight to the champion within 9 months since the date he has obtained the Interim championship title.

for the vacant title
In case of a title vacant the Interim champion of the corresponding category is entitled to be declared new champion.

Nevertheless the president, at his sole discretion, will order Interim champion to fight an elimination match to fill the vacancy against a leading contender who shall be nominated by this Association.
If the Interim champion refuses to fight the elimination match without any justified reason he shall lose his status in the PABA

All the PABA championship rules and regulations shall be applied to the Interim champion and Interim Championship match.

If a PABA champion fails to comply with his obligation to defend the title by the date indicated in the Regulations or to comply with his obligations for a PABA championship fight, the General Secretary shall recommend to the President that his title be declared vacant.

Any clause in agreements for the PABA championship fights which contains provisions that ensures or premises any of contenders a PABA championship rematch shall be void.

If a championship match ends in a tie or if such match is extremely close, and there is a controversial decision, the Director General, at his discretion, may recommend to the President that the two boxers be ordered to fight again for the title within a period to be set by the President.

A PABA championship may be lost because of breach of contract for a PABA title match, because of inability to fight or to meet the required weight or for any other reasons established in the Regulations to govern the PABA championship match.

In the event that a PABA champion has contracted for the World Boxing Association's championship match or contracted for either WBA's elimination bout or WBA's Box-Off tournament match to determine the WBA mandatory challenger, his PABA title shall be vacant on the date of the contract has been approved by the WBA.

In addition, if a PABA champion has contracted to fight another world boxing entity's championship match, which of being recognized by the PABA as a world sanctioning body, his PABA title shall be vacant on the date of contract has been signed by the PABA champion.

In the event that a PABA championship is declared vacant, the two(2) leading available contenders shall meet each other in a title fight, and for this they shall be granted a period of no more than 30 days to negotiate an agreement with a duly qualified promoters registered with the PABA.

Failure to negotiate the agreement within the time indicated shall cause to call a Purse Bid therefore in accordance with the procedure established hereunder.

The leading available contender shall be selected by the Director General according to the current PABA Ratings.

Weight shall determine category. If any of contenders, either champion or challenger, should fail to make the indicated weight limit for the category at the time of official weigh-in, each one of them, or both, shall be given two(2) additional hours to make the required weight.

If the champion should fail to make the required weight, after the two(2) additional hours, he shall lose the title at that time by the official scale for the weigh-in and the match shall go on as programmed providing that the challenger has made the prescribed weight.
Under these circumstances if the challenger wins the match, he shall be crowned as the new champion, but if the champion who did not make the weight requirements should win the match the PABA title shall be declared vacant.

If the champion makes the weight and the challenger fails to do so, the champion retain the title even if he loses the match.

If both contenders should fails to make the prescribed weight, after the two(2) additional hours, the title shall be declared vacant and the match will take place as a non-title fight.

The scale to be used in the official weigh-in must be available to both contenders two(2) hours prior to the time of the official weigh-in.

The official weighing in of the PABA championship match shall be carried out the day before the fight between 16:00 - 20:00 hours.

In case of force majeurer or unforeseen circumstances, which could not be foreseen by either of parties in a program which includes a PABA title match, and which must be postponed for no more forty-eight(48) hours, it will not be necessary to have a new weighing in. If the cause of the postponement is a weather condition or circumstance which could be resolved in less than two(2) hours, no decision shall be taken before the expiration of this time. Any decision regarding postponements shall be made by the Supervisor in agreement with the local commission.

The Regulations governing the weight and weigh-in for the PABA title match shall be also applied to the elimination match for the vacant title to determine a new champion.

If a match is not carried out after it has been sanctioned, neither promoter's annual fee nor sanction fee shall be reimbursed by the PABA, except for justified causes of force majeure in the opinion of the President.

These permits shall be granted with conditions for the best interests of the parties involved and by the fact of accepting and fighting under such permission. These conditions oblige both the champion and challenger.

In these cases the champion should submit in writing the reasons for requesting such permission.

A table of the special permit fees are established by the President.

The President of the PABA shall attend or he shall appoint a Supervisor, representing to this Association, to attend any PABA championship match. The duties of the Supervisor shall be to assist the local Commission to carry out the match and to ensure that all the rules and regulations of the PABA championship match are applied.

The supervisor of a PABA championship match represents the PABA and its President. The supervisor must report on all that occurred during the match for which he was appointed immediately after the match was taken place.

The promoter is obliged to pay for business class air fare as well as meals and hotel accommodation in a first class hotel for the supervisor.

The supervisor is empowered to solve all matters regarding the holding and development of the match and which arises as unforeseen circumstances requiring immediate solution and for which there is no time to consult or request the President's opinion.
The Supervisor's decision in these exceptional cases is final.

The promoter shall make all necessary arrangements for this rules to be complied with.

The office of the Director General of the PABA shall keep an updated list of officials who are qualified by the PABA to officiate championship match.
These officials, referees and judges, shall be appointed by the President and shall number four(4) : one(1) referee who shall not keep score and three(3) scoring judges.

The supervisor and officials shall be compensated by the promoter for their time and cooperation in carrying out the match in accordance with the table of officials fees established by the President in yearly basis.

All officials and supervisor must be at the country where the match will take place three(3) days prior to the match. The promoter shall make all necessary arrangement for this rules to be complied with.

The use of drugs or stimulants by the boxers before or during the match is absolutely prohibited. The discretionary use of vaseline around the eyes shall be allowed.
During the fight the boxers are only allowed to use pure water.

The discretional use of hemostatic fluid is permitted between rounds, such as a solution of adrenaline of one per thousand (1/1000), approved by the ring physician with the object of controlling bleeding of minor cuts and bruises received by either of contenders.

The ring physician may only step up to the ring to examine a boxer's injury when he was asked by the referee to do so and may advise his opinion on the injury to the referee.

The champion and challenger selected by the President and or contenders selected by the President for the vacant PABA title shall have no more than thirty(30) days to reach an agreement for the mandatory match or for the vacant title to determine a new champion.

If the champion and the challenger and or the contenders selected for the vacant title match do not come to an agreement during the period granted by the PABA, it shall have the approval of the PABA President to open a purse bid for the match.

At any bid, and in addition to the sanction fee, each of the promoters or participating corporations shall pay a Bid Service Fee of one thousand (1,000) Dollars of United States currency in cash must be paid at the time the proposal is submitted. This sum will not be reimbursed since it is established to cover expenses incurred by the PABA in processing the Bid.

The Bid shall be conducted by the President of this Association or by the person whom he appoints on the day and time and place indicated in the convocation for the Bid.

Only the bonafide promoters who are registered with this Association may participate in a Purse Bid.

The PABA shall prepare the Bid Form which contains the requirements to be complied with at the Purse Bids conducted by the PABA.

If no promoter should participate in the Bid of mandatory match the champion then shall be free to fight an eligible contender for his voluntary defense.

The minimum amount to be offered in a Bidding process shall be established by the President in the necessary Bidding Procedures.

Definition of unified title with other regional organization(s)
The Pan Asian Boxing Association, PABA, will grant sanction to a PABA champion to fight against champion of another regional organization recognized by the PABA with condition that all the PABA championship rules and regulations shall be applied to the unification match.

Non-recognition of unified champion
In those cases where the unified champion should lose recognition of another organization or relinquish the title of other organization, the unified champion will no longer be recognized as such but can remain the regional champion of the PABA if he should have completion of all his necessary obligations.

The regulations of the PABA championship match may be amended at any time with regard to any of its parts by means of favorable vote of two thirds (2/3) of the members of the Executive Committee.

No provision contained in these regulations shall prevail over any member commission in the event that it is incompatible or contrary to the legislation which governs in the respective territory. However, the Rules and Regulations which govern the PABA championship matches approved by this Association shall be of obligatory compliance and shall prevail over any local rules and provisions in said matches.

In order to make compliance of the forgoing article effective, all applicants for sanction of the PABA championship match shall be accompanied by a signed declaration by the promoter and the respective boxers undertaking that the match will be governed by the Rules and Regulations of the PABA championship match.