By Ron Lewis - Lauren Price says she is ready to relaunch her campaign for a gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics next year after spending the entire UK lockdown isolated from her family. Price, the middleweight who won gold at the World Championships in 2019, is one of 12 Great Britain boxers who will return to training at the GB Boxing headquarters in in...
AIBA has taken note of the press statement by the Boxing Federation of India and would like to clarify the situation as follows. Yesterday, AIBA announced Belgrade as a host city of 2021 AIBA Men’s World Boxing Championships. In 2017, the tournament was awarded to India, and a Host City Agreement was signed in January 2019. As per this agreement, half of the host fees were due and payable on 1 December 2019. But as New Delhi did not fulfil its obligations to pay the host fee as mentioned in the Host City Agreement, despite numerous reminders by AIBA and after having been offered multiple options to settle their obligations, AIBA had no choice but to terminate the contract in April 2020.
AIBA Men’s World Boxing Championships takes place in the city of Belgrade in 2021. After New Delhi didn’t fulfill its obligations to pay host fee as mentioned in the Host City Agreement terms, AIBA has terminated the contract. Therefore, India would have to pay a cancellation penalty of 500,000 USD.
Billy Walsh, the USA National head coach, says he is confident that all boxers selected for the Olympic qualifiers will remain amateur after being told they will not have to go through another set of trials for the delayed Olympic Games.
Peter McGrail had this year all planned out. First qualify for the Olympics, then claim featherweight gold in Tokyo before a couple of professional fights before the year was out. Like everyone else, though, life is on hold. The Liverpudlian managed the first bit… just, booking his Olympic spot in the final session before the tournament was suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic. Now turning pro is delayed – McGrail has worked too hard for too long to miss out on the Olympics, even if he has to wait an extra 12 months.
USA Boxing has offered to stage the rearranged Americas Olympic qualifying boxing tournament in Colorado Springs should Argentina decide not to go ahead with the event. The tournament, the final of four continental qualifiers, was due to run from March 26-April 3 in Buenos Aires but was called off after the Argentine government cancelled all international events in the country a bid to prevent the spread of coronavirus.
Mexican superstar Saúl 'Canelo' Alvarez has no interest in competing in the Olympic Games in Tokyo, which have been postponed until 2021. In the last two Olympics, there was a rule change which allowed professional boxers to compete in the Olympic tournaments.
By Thomas Hauser - Kids gather in the schoolyard to watch when other kids fight. And some kids like to fight. Put these phenomena together in an adult world; add in a profit motive for fight organizers in an atmosphere of disrespect for the law; and underground fight clubs are the result. For most people, familiarity with underground fight clubs begins....
Rob McCracken says that he does not expect any Great Britain boxers to turn their back on the Olympic Games to turn professional. The Tokyo Olympics had been due to start in July, but the coronavirus pandemic has seen it put back until July 2021. Several boxers including gold medal hopes Pat McCormack and Peter McGrail had planned to turn professional straight after the Tokyo Games. But the decision to move the Olympics back 12 months has mean them having to weigh up the benefit of boxing in Tokyo against getting started on their professional journey.
The International Boxing Association (AIBA) has paid off all of their debts and is implementing the recommendations of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). This information was indicated to TASS by the General Secretary of the Boxing Federation of Russia, Umar Kremlin, who is also a member of the Executive Committee of AIBA.