STAGE SET FOR FOURTH KATARA AMATEUR BOXING CHAMPIONSHIP
As many as 71 boxers representing 14 clubs will compete at the fourth Katara Amateur Boxing Championship, which gets underway at Katara, today.
As many as 71 boxers representing 14 clubs will compete at the fourth Katara Amateur Boxing Championship, which gets underway at Katara, today.
Jimuel Pacquiao, the oldest son of boxing legend Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao, has won his first amateur bout on United States soil.
The Vanuatu Association of Sports and National Olympic Committee (VASANOC) has issued a call for nominations to serve on an interim Vanuatu Amateur Boxing Association (VABA) Executive Committee.
The International Boxing Association (IBA) has signaled its continued commitment to sporting integrity in 2022 and beyond, by renewing its partnership with the International Testing Agency (ITA) for three years.
2020 USA Boxing Youth National Champions Julius Ballo (San Diego, Calif.) and Quincey Williams (Washington, D.C.) made impressive debuts today during the first day of competition at the 2021 Junior Pan American Games in Cali, Colombia.
The World Amateur Championships that finished in Belgrade on Saturday was the last major amateur tournament with a ten-point must scoring system, as AIBA look to introduce a new transparent scoring method to root out corruption.
The women’s World Amateur Boxing Championships scheduled for Istanbul next month have been postponed due to the spike in Covid-19 cases worldwide.
The second part of the semi-finals took place in Belgrade during the evening session at the AIBA World Boxing Championships. Young boxers Jahmal Harvey from the USA, Turkey’s Kerem Oezmen, and Ukraine’s Yurii Zakharieiev were the heroes of the session, all of these 19-year-old talents proceeded to the finals.
India’s Akash Kumar (54kg) stunned Rio Olympic silver medallist Yoel Finol of Venezuela 5-0 in the quarter-finals to secure at least a bronze medal for the nation at the Men’s world Boxing Championships in Belgrade, Serbia on Tuesday.
The Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) will soon have a place to call its own, according to president, Steve Ninvalle. Ninvalle reported that the GBA is in the process of securing a plot of land from the Government of Guyana to establish what will be its home for Amateur Boxing.