German Petko's Box Promotion stage its next show in Belgrade, Serbia, on May 21. Headlining is light heavyweight Nick Hannig (9-0-1) defending the WBC International title against Latvian Ralfs Vilcans (11-0) at the Crowne Plaza Hotel.
According to several reports, a teenage Jordanian amateur boxer, Rashed Al-Swaisat, died in hospital more than a week after he sustained a traumatic brain injury at the International Boxing Association (AIBA) world youth championships in Poland.
The Olympic qualifying tournament for boxers from the Americas has been scrapped with quota places for the Olympic Games in Tokyo this summer, which would have been distributed at the event, will now be decided based on world rankings.
Kazakhstan’s two-time AIBA World Boxing Championships silver medallist Kamshybek Kunkabayev is appointed as an Ambassador of the upcoming AIBA Youth World Boxing Championships which takes place in Kielce, Poland on April 10-24.
President of the International Boxing Association Mr. Umar Kremlev during his visit to Uzbekistan officially announced that AIBA Men’s World Boxing Championships will take place in Tashkent in 2023. The city of Tashkent is awarded the 2023 AIBA Men's World Boxing Championships after the successful bid presentation by the Boxing Federation of Uzbekistan. The AIBA Board of Directors voted in favor of the major event candidate city.
The dream of representing Somalia at this summer’s Olympics is still alive for Ramla Ali, although she still faces an anxious wait to see if she will get the chance to box in Tokyo. Ali has her second professional fight when she takes on Bec Connelly at Wembley on Saturday, but the Vogue cover model is ready to put her professional career on hold is she is handed an Olympic spot.
Texas twins Josh (L) and Jordan (R) Jenkins are on a mission to become the first twins ever to be on a Team USA Olympic Boxing Team. They will both be competing in the elite division at the 2020 USA Boxing National Championships, postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic from last December to March 25 - April 3, in Shreveport, Louisiana.
Kazakhstan sensation Tursynbay Kulakhmet has touched down in the UK ahead of working with highly-respected trainer Jamie Moore. Highly-rated Kulakhmet (2-0, 1 KO) was last in action in November, where he won the WBC International super-welterweight title in just his second professional fight with a unanimous decision win over previously unbeaten Macaulay McGowan.
The Americas and European Olympic qualifying events will go ahead in May and June respectively, although the final world qualifier for the Tokyo Games this summer has been scrapped.
World champions Naoya Inoue and Hiroto Kyoguchi will star in a charity event called “Legend”, to be held on February 11, in Tokyo, Japan. The two fighters will join other great Japanese boxers, who will perform different exhibition bouts for different causes in the Asian country.