{"id":76833,"date":"2025-12-05T04:10:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T04:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/76833\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T04:10:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T04:10:06","slug":"usa-boxing-national-championships-coming-to-lubbock-civic-center-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/76833\/","title":{"rendered":"USA Boxing National Championships coming to Lubbock Civic Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usaboxing.org\/2025-usa-boxing-national-championships\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.usaboxing.org\/2025-usa-boxing-national-championships\">The 2025 USA Boxing National Championships <\/a>will take place at the Lubbock Civic Center starting Monday, featuring hundreds of amateur boxers competing to represent the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Michael Campbell, works for USA Boxing in the events and operations department. He says you wont want to miss out on all the action.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThis national championship is very significant because it\u2019s on the road towards Los Angeles in 2028, the Olympics is going to be back in the United States in two years and this is going to start our qualification procedure to see who will be our boxers in that tournament,\u201d Campbell said.<\/p>\n<p>Event brings thousands to Lubbock<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Scott Harrison, director of sports for Visit Lubbock, said the event will bring thousands of people to the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThere will be over a thousand boxers, right at 900 coaches, I think 75 to 100 officials, 25 to 50 staff members that go along with them everywhere they go to help set up all this,\u201d Harrison said. \u201cWe have seats for about 1,500 people, so basically we\u2019re filling up the whole civic center for ten days,\u201d Harrison said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The championships will feature over 900 matches from amateur boxers representing 46 states. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cSome of those faces you will see in the boxing ring in Los Angeles will be here boxing and competing in this tournament,\u201d Campbell said. \u201cSo if you\u2019re a fan of the Olympics or a fan of combat sports, this is the place to be,\u201d Campbell said.<\/p>\n<p>Lubbock positioned as sporting event hub<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Campbell said USA Boxing enjoys coming to Lubbock and believes the city can become a major hub for other sporting events.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cPart of this relationship with the city of Lubbock and Lubbock sports we have tried to leverage other national governing bodies,\u201d Campbell said. \u201cBeing in Colorado Springs, we have a lot of other friends there in combat sports such as judo, karate, taekwondo, fencing, and so we often try to make those connections to keep the pipeline going to keep the city busy and viable and hosting Olympic sports,\u201d Campbell said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The boxing national championship will run from Dec. 8-13. Tickets will be sold at the Lubbock Civic Center on event days with different ticket options available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">For more information on the week-long event, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usaboxing.org\/2025-usa-boxing-national-championships\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.usaboxing.org\/2025-usa-boxing-national-championships\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; The 2025 USA Boxing National Championships will take place at the Lubbock Civic Center&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[24284,37811,6913,4145,37812,36981,20648,7479,9922,168,170,169,4491,37810,30805,20179,3416],"class_list":["post-76833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-box","tag-boxers","tag-boxing","tag-center","tag-championships","tag-civic","tag-compete","tag-fight","tag-los-angeles","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-national","tag-olympics","tag-states","tag-united","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}