Editing CompuBox (section)

== History ==
The origins of CompuBox trace back to the early 1980s when Jon Gibbs developed ''TenniSTAT'', a computer-generated statistics program for tennis utilized by major tournaments such as the US Open and Wimbledon.<ref name="fightnews">Jones, Robert. [https://web.archive.org/web/20081007142624/http://www.fightnightnews.com/compubox.html "Interview With the Owner of CompuBox: Bob Canobbio"], ''Mike Marley's FightNightNews.com'', accessed February 12, 2008.</ref> In 1984–85, while collaborating with Logan Hobson and Robert Canobbio at Sports Information Data Base (SIDB) in Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey, Gibbs adapted his technology to boxing, resulting in the creation of ''FightStat'' (also known as ''PunchStat'').<ref name="fightreport">Perry, Kevin. [https://web.archive.org/web/20110723125542/http://www.fightreport.net/?p=958 "Fight Report Exclusive-Compubox Interview"], ''Fight Report'', accessed February 12, 2008.</ref>

This system debuted during the 1985 HBO Boxing telecast of the rematch between [[Ray Mancini]] and [[Livingstone Bramble]] for the WBA world lightweight title at Madison Square Garden's Felt Forum and in Reno.<ref name="fightreport" /> Following SIDB's bankruptcy in 1985, Hobson and Canobbio rebranded the program as '''CompuBox''' and established CompuBox Inc. Hobson departed the company in 2002.<ref name="compubox">[http://www.compuboxonline.com "CompuBox Online"]</ref>