B-boying or Breaking, also called Breakdancing, is a style of street dance that originated among African-American and Puerto Rican youths in New York City during the early 1970s. The dance spread worldwide due to popularity in the media, especially in regions such as South Korea, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Russia, and Japan. Now, b-boying has gained much popularity around the world with countless competitions crowning the best bboy crews and solo bboys. Many consider Battle of the Year, UK B-Boy Championships and R-16 Korea to be the 3 major international bboy competitions which determine the best bboy crew in the world. Along with crew battles, solo, or 1 on 1 battles, have also gained much popularity around the world. UK B-Boy Championships, Battle of the Year and R-16 Korea are also well known for their 1 on 1 b-boy championships. However, Red Bull BC One is argued to be the most coveted competition to crown the best solo b-boy due to their audience and popularity worldwide.
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Success by country
Note: The following table only takes into consideration Battle of the Year, UK B-Boy Championships and R-16 Korea
International Solo B-boy Champions list
Since 2014, eight solo international B-Boy competitions joined together in the creation of the World BBoy Series and a new masters event called Undisputed to determine the supreme individual B-boy world champion. The World B-Boy Series is the world's first B-Boying competition connecting eight different events around the world. They include Red Bull BC One, UK B-Boy Championships, Battle of the Year, R-16 Korea, Notorious IBE, Silverback Open Championships, Freestyle Session, Chelles Battle Pro and Outbreak Europe. In 2015, UK B-boy Championships was not held and Silverback Open Championships was added to the World Bboy Series. Freestly Session and Silverback Open Championship are also part of Pro Breaking Tour's Championship Series established by the Urban Dance & Educational Foundation.
Until 2013, the main international solo b-boy events were Red Bull BC One, UK B-Boy Championships, Battle of the Year and R-16 Korea.
Success by country
Note: The following table only takes into consideration Red Bull BC One, Battle of the Year, UK B-Boy Championships and R-16 Korea as well as other Undisputed event starting from 2014.
Undisputed
The World B-Boy Series is the world's first B-Boying competition connecting eight different events around the world. Since 2014, the 8 solo B-Boy champions of these international events will meet in a new masters event called Undisputed and battle to establish who is the supreme champion, who is "Undisputed".
World BBoy Series 2015
Events participating in the 2015 World BBoy Series.
To qualify to Undisputed, b-boys had to win 1 of the 8 World B-Boy Series events. In the event that one b-boy won multiple championships, the next highest ranked b-boy would qualify.
Issei () had originally qualified as highest rank among non-winners but was unavailable for competition. El Niño () and Kareem () had both qualified to Undisputed by winning Outbreak Europe and being second highest rank among non-winners respectively. However, both got injured prior to the competition. Sunni (), the Notorious IBE winner, was also ruled out due to an injury.
World BBoy Series 2014
Events participating in the 2014 World BBoy Series.
Bboys who competed for Undisputed
Tonio () had originally qualified to Undisputed by winning The Notorious IBE earlier in the year. However, due to visa complications, Tonio had to withdraw from the competition. As a result, Spin will be replacing Tonio for being the second ranked among non-winners.