For those of us who live and breathe this sport, SBF National Championship 2026 is more than a competition. It is a gathering. Every year, boxing gyms from all corners of Singapore pack their gear, wrap their hands and bring their best to Bedok Sports Hall for SBF National Championship organised by Singapore Boxing Federation. Rival coaches nod at each other across the hall. Nervous debutants share warm-ups with seasoned competitors. Boxers who only started training a year ago stand in the same ring that national representatives once stood in. And in that convergence of ambition, sweat and controlled chaos, Singapore boxing finds its heartbeat.
I’ve been privileged to walk into that hall wearing two very different hats. As a coach, you guard your fighters with everything you have, every tactical adjustment, every word between rounds, every knowing glance across the ring. As a national head coach, you also watch the whole room. You’re not just watching your team perform, you’re watching everyone perform. You’re looking for the fighter who doesn’t flinch, the one who adapts mid-fight, the one whose composure tells you something their record alone cannot. Nationals is where I scout for the next generation of boxers to represent the nation and every edition reminds me why this tournament deserves every ounce of the gravity we give it.
This year, Legends Fight Sport stepped into that hall with nine fighters, Junior, Youth, Development and Elite. Men and women. To send nine boxers to the Nationals is not something you do overnight. It takes months of quiet, unglamorous work. Months of rep after rep, honest conversations about where each fighter stands and where they need to go. What made this team special wasn’t just the number of fighters we brought. It was the range. From our junior prospect stepping into his first taste of national competition, to our elite women who carry the standard for female boxing in this gym, this was a team that represented every chapter of a boxer’s journey simultaneously.
And the results? Legends Fight Sport walked away with the Best Team award, a recognition that belongs to every single boxer representing Legends in that ring and to every coach, every training partner, every family member who showed up and made the work possible.
Trophies are won in training gym long before they’re decided in competition ring and this team had the character to prove it when it counted.
What a beautiful sentiment. But actually, NO. Scoreboards matter.
That is the brutal reality of competition. You either win or you lose and the history books don’t print footnotes about your “immense character.” Losing doesn’t mean you didn’t work hard. It just means your hard work got outscored. If you fell short this time, you don’t cry about the math, you just let that effort carry you back to the gym to work even harder for the next one.
Well, I can already hear the whispers…
“Of course Legends won. Look who’s national head coach.”
Cute theory. Wrong one. It’s a comfortable little story for people who’d rather invent a conspiracy than confront a scoreboard. SBF has its own team of brains running this competition and they answer to results, not relationships.
Now, none of this happens in a vacuum. Behind every fighter who walked into that ring composed, sharp and ready, there was a coach who made them that way. Coach Farell was in charge of the fighting team and he did a good job. Month after month, rep after rep, the kind of work that doesn’t make highlight reels but absolutely makes champions. You don’t get nine fighters performing at this level across this many categories without a coach who knows exactly what each one needs and more importantly, what they don’t need. Well done, Coach. The results speak and they speak clearly.
To the fighters who used this Nationals as a stepping stone, who tested themselves, found their gaps and left hungrier than they arrived, this is exactly what this tournament is for. Not every bout ends the way you want it to. But every bout teaches you something about yourself that you cannot learn any other way. That is the gift of competition and it doesn’t diminish for a single fighter who stepped through those ropes.
And to those who have now been identified for national team consideration, the door doesn’t open because someone handed it to you. It opens because you earned the right to knock. You knocked. Keep going.
The SBF National Championship is, at its core, a celebration of discipline, of courage and of a sport that asks everything of those who choose it. It brings together gyms and fighters who compete fiercely and then return to their shared love of the craft the moment the final bell rings. That community is something we at Legends Fight Sport are proud to be part of and proud to contribute to.
Onward. 🥊
Here are the names of boxers representing Legends for SBF National Championship 2026:
Men
Zidane, 54kg, Junior Male
Wei Kang, 50kg, Development
Sufi, 50kg, Elite
Clayden, 55kg, Elite
Danny, 55kg, Elite
Dominic, 60kg, Development
Xiang Yi, 65kg, Youth
Women
Jasleen, 48kg, Women Development
Danisha, 51kg, Women Elite
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