
The mission to save Olympic boxing
In an exclusive interview with BoxingScene, Mike McAtee, the executive director of USA Boxing, discussed the future of Olympic boxing and the challenges the organization faces moving forward.

In an exclusive interview with BoxingScene, Mike McAtee, the executive director of USA Boxing, discussed the future of Olympic boxing and the challenges the organization faces moving forward.

The gold medal won by Algeria’s Imane Khelif in the women’s welterweight competition at the just-concluded 2024 Paris Olympic Games has brought a slew of ill-informed, hot-button-pushing critics out of the woodwork. But she now has at least one new ally.

What is the point of Olympic boxing? That’s the lingering question after the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, where only two non-professionals—Uzbekistan’s Asadkhuja Muydinkhujaev and Ukraine’s Oleksandr Khyzhniak—captured gold in the men’s competition.

Two new Olympic gold medalists emerged at the 2024 Olympics in Paris

JK Rowling screamed ‘brutal injustice’, multiple half-baked reports were published on websites and even broadcast on news bulletins, and before we knew it a man had beaten up a woman inside a boxing ring.

At recent editions of the Olympic Games, medallists from Team GB have stepped down from the podium to find professional promoters waiting with open cheque books. Things will be different this year and that will be as much down to the current state of British boxing as it is a disappointing return from the British contingent in France.

The drought continues for the U.S. men's boxing team at the Olympics as welterweight Omari Jones lost to Asadkhuja Muydinkhujaev of Uzbekistan on Tuesday.

The International Boxing Association has announced plans to award Italy’s Angela Carini $50,000 in prize money following her defeat in the welterweight round of 16 of Paris 2024 against Algerian Imane Khelif

Forty-six seconds into the first round of their women’s boxing match at the 2024 Paris Olympics on Thursday, Italy’s Angela Carini abandoned her fight against Algeria’s Imane Khelif.
