No single boxer has ever achieved an Olympic double at light heavyweight, but in 1960, a young American named Cassius Clay travelled with the USA team to Italy to represent […]

As London steadied itself to host the first post-war Games in 1948, a Hungarian boxer named Laszlo Papp was quietly preparing a piece of Olympic history at his gym in […]

The AIBA President Dr Ching-Kuo Wu made his latest visit to Riocentro Pavilion 6 at the weekend where, in the company of AIBA officials and Rio 2016 LOC representatives, he […]

The Olympic welterweight title was traditionally one of the more democratic weight categories, the first ten titles shared between nine nations before Cuba and East Germany traded podium-topping duties between […]

The 1976 US Boxing Team is widely considered one of the finest ever gathered in the history of the Games, between them winning five gold medals, a silver and a […]

The 1960s and 1970s was a golden era for Polish lightweight boxers as the team won three out of four Olympic gold medals, but it was from neighbouring Ukraine that […]

The first fourteen Olympic bantamweight champions were shared between twelve nations, but in the eleven editions since 1972, the Cuban team alone has won an impressive five golds. It was […]

The flyweight category was one of the first weight classes to be contested when boxing made its debut at the 1904 Olympic Games in St Louis. With only two athletes […]

Weighing in at up to 49kg, the light flyweight boxers may be the smallest in the men’s Olympic competition, but several big-hitting heroes have made their names over the years. […]

On the eve of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, the countries of Malta, Anguilla and Libya have become the newest members of the International Boxing Association, taking the total number […]