The IBA Punch Power Challenge will offer a total prize fund of $21,000 when the new punching-power competition debuts at the IBA President’s Cup in Istanbul. The winner of each of the three men’s weight categories will take home $4,500.

The International Boxing Association (IBA) will hold the IBA Punch Power Challenge, a punching-power championship on its new interactive IBA PUNCH machines, as part of the inaugural IBA President’s Cup in Istanbul.

Each category carries $7,000 in prize money, with $4,500 for first place, $1,500 for second and $1,000 for third. Participants will compete in three men’s weight categories, and the competition is open to men aged 18 and over.

Qualifying runs from 27 November to 1 December at the Hasan Doğan Sports Complex. The top five in each category will advance to the final at the Global Boxing Forum on 4 December, where the prize winners will be decided. Registration is free and open at ibapunch.com. Participants can also sign up on site by scanning the QR code on an IBA PUNCH machine.

IBA PUNCH was developed in-house by the International Boxing Association (IBA) as part of its wider digital boxing ecosystem. The idea is simple: one punch is enough to enter the competition. The machine measures the force of every punch, shows the result instantly and adds it to the participant’s personal profile, which stores their result history, achievements and statistics.

All IBA PUNCH machines are connected to a single digital system, so results from different locations count towards shared rankings and competitions can be held across cities and countries. The Istanbul championship is the first step towards a global IBA PUNCH network.