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India loses Hosting Rights for 2021 Men’s World Boxing Championship

After failing to pay the host fee, India lost the opportunity to host the 2021 men’s World Boxing Championship for the first time. About India had signed an...

May 1, 2020

Indian boxer Sarita Devi elected to AIBA first Athletes Commission

Veteran Indian boxer L Sarita Devi was elected unopposed to International Boxing Association’s (AIBA) first-ever Athletes Commission. She is among six boxers elected as members of the commission...

November 19, 2019

Kishen Narsi appointed as Chairman of Asian Boxing Confederation’s (ASBC) competitions commission

Kishen Narsi from India has been appointed as the Chairman of Asian Boxing Confederation’s (ASBC) competitions commission. Narsi is a former All-India University champion boxer. He was an...

July 23, 2019

Gafur Rakhimov elected as new President of International Boxing Association

Gafur Rakhimov, an Uzbek businessman and sports administrator, has been elected as the new President of the International Boxing Association (AIBA), which is an amateur boxing’s global governing...

November 9, 2018

Raffaele Bergamasco appointed as Performance Director for women’s boxing in India

Italian coach Raffaele Bergamasco has been appointed Performance Director for senior women’s boxing. He is behind India’s best ever medal haul at the recently-concluded AIBA Women’s Youth Boxing...

December 10, 2017

Guppy official mascot of 2017 AIBA Youth Women’s World Boxing Championship

Assam’s female one-horned rhino “Guppy” has been unveiled as the official mascot of the 2017 AIBA Youth Women’s World Boxing Championship in Guwahati, Assam on November 7, 2017....

November 9, 2017

Mary Kom become first Indian to be picked as AIBA representative at IOC athletes’ forum

M C Mary Kom, the five-time world champion and Olympic bronze-medallist, has become the first Indian to be picked as the International Boxing Association’s (AIBA) representative for the...

September 24, 2017

AIBA grants full membership to Boxing Federation of India

Association Internationale de Boxe Amateur (International Boxing Association) has granted full membership to the recently-formed Boxing Federation of India (BFI). This was announced on the sidelines of 70th...

December 21, 2016

Boxer Sarita Devi banned for a year for refusing Asian Games bronze by AIBA

The International Boxing Association (AIBA) has banned Indian boxer Sarita Devi for one year. She was banned for not accepting her bronze medal at Asian Games medal ceremony....

December 17, 2014

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