The NCAA boxing championships were discontinued by the National Collegiate Athletic Association after 1960.

[2] The popularity of college boxing had been waning in the years leading up to 1960,[3] and only 20 teams competed at the 1959 championship.

[4] At the 1960 NCAA Championships Charlie Mohr, a boxer on the University of Wisconsin–Madison team, collapsed with a brain hemorrhage and died one week later.

In 2012, the United States Intercollegiate Boxing Association (USIBA) was formed and hosted the first national championships for women alongside a men's division.

The first USIBA Championships were hosted at the University of San Francisco in 2013.