By Zhenyu Li (photo by Zhenyu Li)

The Chinese boxing community was over the moon as women's boxing punches ticket for the Olympics.

"The IOC's decision will not only glamorize the obscure sport in a wider context globally, but should also greatly elevate the sport of women's boxing in China," Jianping Chang, the president of Chinese Boxing Association confided to me. "China will have much of a chance to grab another two gold medals in the London Olympic Games."

Before winning its 'Olympic fight', the Women's World Championships is the highest profile tournament for women's boxing. China totally dominated the sport in this state-of-the-art grand pageant last year, playing the solo on the brightest medal tally with five golds, two silvers and four bronzes, leaving the the runner-up Turkey, with three golds and four bronzes, in the dust.

Moreover, China was among the only four boxing powerhouses, accompanied by Russia, America and Ukraine that punched their ways to all 13 weight classes of the tournament, which handsomely demonstrated, to a greater extent, its overall competitive edge and the extraordinary balancing between weight categories.

However, the glory and pride of the other three forceful nations were completely overshadowed by the Oriental Giant's remarkable achievements in the ring. In sharp contrast with China, Russia and the United States, the two former dominating forces between the ropes suffered a gold drought, and the motherland that bred the current undisputed heavyweight king Wladimir Klitschko barely clutched one bronze.

China's leverage in the Noble Art of women is not impressive, but explosive and exclusive.

On paper, China would arguably benefit the most after the International Olympic Committee opened its arms to women's boxing to include the sport in the London Games.

"To say that we have already booked the all three London Olympic gold medals in women's boxing is surely an overstatement," Chang said with a smile. "Accurately put, there are possibilities that China strives for golds in all three divisions."

Women participants will rival in the flyweight (48-51kg), lightweight (56-60kg) and middleweight (69-75kg) divisions in the boxing tournament of the 2012 Olympic Games.

Amid the five gold medals China clinched during the 2008 Women's World Championships, four of them fall into the approved standardized weight categories of the Olympics. Further, there are altogether eight Chinese women boxing athletes who won medals in the aforementioned three weight classes last year during the Championships.

Meanwhile, the 80kg female gold medalist Jieli Yang is endeavoring to reduce her weight class to middleweight in order to represent her country to shine on the brightest stage of amateur boxing.

By this token, China would have all the necessary tools to choicely pick out the best of the best from the bests to represent it to march into the London battlefield.

Except for an exceptionally excellent English female boxing athlete in the lightweight, China has had the capability in the other two divisions to have a serious crack at the Olympic golds, Chang observed.

Interestingly, two Chinese prizefighters, the former WBA, WIBC and WIBA super flyweight world champion Xiyan Zhang and the WIBA super flyweight titlist Jing Cheng, both went back from the professional ranks to the amateur regime, joining the forces of the interim national women's boxing team of China.

With two former top-notch pros adding to the lineup, China is more than likely to strike a series of beautiful combinations in the London Olympic square ring.

Zhenyu Li, a China-based bilingual sports and culture columnist for People's Daily online. His agent can be reached at sunboxing@gmail.com.