MANDURAH boxer Alex Winwood is set to take on the world’s best when he competes at an international competition in Hamburg, Germany, later this month. Winwood (20) will compete in the light flyweight (49kg) division after qualifying for the World Amateur Boxing Championships by winning a gold medal at the Oceania Championships in June.…
Team Georgia boxing brought home several championships after concluding its summer season with sanctioned USA Boxing tournaments in Dallas, Texas, Mesquite, Nevada and Independence, Missouri over the final three weeks of July. Led by Michael Lugo, the owner of east Cobb’s Lugo’s Boxing and Fitness Gym and the Junior Olympics chairperson of the Georgia…
Amateur boxing’s world governing body AIBA has been plunged deeper into civil war after the beleaguered organisation filed a criminal complaint against members of its own executive committee in Switzerland. The move comes after a Swiss court rejected a bid by members of the International Management Committee – ostensibly, those executive committee members who passed a…
Francisco Alemán, María Flores and her older brother, Jesús Flores (pictured from left, Jesús Flores, his sister, María Flores and Francisco Alemán), recently made their junior amateur boxing biographies a bit stronger. Alemán and the Flores siblings – along with Jett Blackwell – each won U.S. National Junior Golden Gloves championships in a weeklong…
A Swiss court rejected Monday an urgent provisional management shakeup at amateur boxing’s ruling body AIBA, ruling the push to oust embattled president Wu Ching-Kuo could wait for a proper hearing. “The Swiss court has announced today (Monday) its decision to reject the requests for urgent provisional measures,” AIBA said in a statement. …
Amateur boxers will have to fight their way into Team Fiji squad for the 2017 Pacific Mini Games in Vanuatu. Fiji Amateur Boxing Association president Manasa Baravilala said the final trials would be held next month. “The National Boxing Championship from September 7-9 is also the final trials for the Fiji Boxing Team…
The embattled president of the International Boxing Association (AIBA) defiantly claimed on Saturday that he was still in charge of the body despite moves by rival executives to oust him. In a phone interview with AFP from Taipei, Wu Ching-kuo accused his AIBA rivals of trying to pull off “a military coup” and insisted…
Employees of the International Boxing Association (AIBA) were locked out of their offices on Wednesday with president Wu Ching-Kuo set to be ousted from his role, according to an AFP journalist. Security guards have been blocking access to the AIBA offices in Lausanne. A notice pinned to the door and signed by an…
The president of amateur boxing’s governing body, AIBA, is set to be ousted from his position with instability and financial turmoil growing at the organization. Wu Ching-kuo will be asked to step down after 13 members voted to pass a motion of no confidence in the president with a further two abstaining from voting…
The International Boxing Association (AIBA) has claimed a settlement agreement has been reached with Azerbaijani company Benkons MMC to repay a $10 million (£8 million/€8.5 million) loan following reports they are on the verge of bankruptcy. Benkons director Hamid Hamidov had reportedly claimed there was no schedule to repay the loan that was given…