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.
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