Mauricio Sulaiman has continued his ongoing attacks on AIBA – the governing body for what is still generally called the amateur code - calling their rules “brutal and criminal” on Twitter after Richard Torrez Jr, the super-heavyweight from the United States, was knocked out by Bakhodir Jalolov, a boxer who has had six bouts as a professional.
The story of the day was an encounter between #8 ranked Russians and #1 ranked Cubans, who collided in five weight classes, and Cuba barely retained her dominance, winning 3:2 over the Russian team. Successful efforts of both veteran Andrey Zamkovoy, who at 32 will earn his second WC medal, following 2009 Milano silver, and young gun Gleb Bakshi were upsets of the day, as was a sudden loss of another #1 Cuban Erisandy Savon, who was defeated by little-known Bulgarian Daniil Pantaleev in the heavyweight division.
The 2019 world amateur championship is presently under way in Ekaterinburg, Russia, which is rightfully labeled as Ural’s first boxing hotbed. After almost two thirds of the tourney, the championship is about to enter its most important rounds – quarterfinals (on Wednesday), semifinals (on Friday) and finals (on Saturday) – with Thursday being the championship’s single day off.
By Ron Lewis - Billy Walsh knew he was taking on a big task when he left Ireland to try and revive the United States as an Olympic boxing power, but four years into the job and 11 months away from the Tokyo Games things may be starting to turning for the better. The World Championships are taking place in Yekate...
MGM Grand, Las Vegas, NV - It appears that 3-division world champion Vasiliy Lomachenko has started a trend that many Olympians fighting under the Top Rank banner will follow. Next month in his 13th professional fight, Shakur Stevenson will face Joet Gonzalez for the vacant WBO featherweight title. On December 14th, Teofimo Lopez will take on IBF lightweight champion Richard Commey in his 15th fight as a pro.
The Cuban Boxing Federation reported Monday that boxer José Angel Larduet defected from the national team currently training in Germany for the next world championship tournament to be held in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg.
Former five division world champion Floyd Mayweather has been named "special advisor" to China's boxing team as they look to improve their medal count at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, the Chinese Boxing Federation said.
According to Reuters, two Russian boxers serving doping suspensions have competed while banned, highlighting inconsistencies in Russia’s efforts to reform its anti-doping practices. Competition records show that Russian amateur boxers Islam Dashaev and Alena Tokarchuk fought in official tournaments last year despite bans announced by Russian anti-doping agency RUSADA, which is forbidden under international anti-doping rules.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Wednesday thrashed out the plan for the boxing qualification and competition for next year's Tokyo 2020 Olympics as it looks to run them without the suspended international boxing federation AIBA.
Boxing should retain its place at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo but the International Boxing Association (AIBA) should not organise it, says the International Olympic Committee.