UNDERDOG FIGHTS FOR BOXING’S OLYMPIC FUTURE
With boxing’s Olympic future on the line, Serik Konakbayev will fight to save his sport.
SERIK KONAKBAYEV TO STAND FOR AIBA PRESIDENCY
The fight for the future of amateur boxing will be a two-way tussle after the court of arbitration for sport ruled Serik Konakbayev could stand in Saturday’s Aiba presidential election.
RAKHIMOV DECLARES HIS INNOCENCE
He is blacklisted by the US treasury, which has accused him of being one of Uzbekistan’s “leading criminals” with “links to the heroin trade”. Yet Gafur Rakhimov, the man expected to be elected as the president of amateur boxing’s governing body (AIBA), says he will clear his name – and then lift his sport off…
ENGLAND: OLYMPIC BOXING IN DANGER
Boxing faces an “unprecedented risk” and must work to ensure it is not ousted as an Olympic sport, says the head of England Boxing.
GOOD TURNOUT FOR FIRST USA BOXING ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
A large group of past and present amateur boxers, as well as others involved in the sport, recently turned out in force for the first USA Boxing Alumni Association gathering on the West Coast.
AIBA BANS CK WU AND HO KIM FOR LIFE
The International Boxing Association (AIBA), amateur boxing’s governing body has issued life bans to former president, CK Wu and former executive director, Ho Kim for “gross negligence and financial mismanagement of AIBA affairs and finances.”
BOXING FACING POTENTIAL EXPULSION FROM OLYMPICS
Boxing is now facing the clear and present danger of being expelled from the Tokyo Olympics after the International Boxing Association (AIBA) confirmed the sole nomination of Gafur Rakhimov for their next president.
BOXING IS BACK IN THE BAHAMAS
Bahamas amateur boxing is back! A venue and date have been confirmed for the Bahamas Amateur Boxing Federation’s (BABF) latest fight card.
BRENDAN IRVINE SEEKS 2019 RETURN
Amateur boxer Brendan Irvine reveals that he has recently undergone “complex surgery” on a wrist injury which will keep him out of the sport until 2019. The Belfast fighter, a silver medallist at the Commonwealth Games in April, revealed that the injury was sustained before the competition in Australia and was made worse by…
AIBA LOOKING TO CHANGE ITS CULTURE
During a time of uncertainty for boxing’s top amateur governing body, the AIBA is looking to change its culture and try to get to the root of a rampant judging problem.