August 1st, 2016 / IBA
The Olympic Games’ mighty middleweights (75kg)
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 […]
August 1st, 2016 / IBA
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 […]
August 1st, 2016 / IBA
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 […]
August 1st, 2016 / IBA
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 […]
July 31st, 2016 / IBA
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 […]
July 29th, 2016 / IBA
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 […]
July 29th, 2016 / IBA
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 […]
July 29th, 2016 / IBA
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 […]
July 28th, 2016 / IBA
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. […]
July 28th, 2016 / IBA
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 […]
July 25th, 2016 / IBA
July 25th, Shanghai China: Following the initial MOU phase announced in January 2016 to study the development of several specific projects designed to increase global awareness of boxing and the […]