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Support of the National Federations and their athletes is the priority of the International Boxing Association (AIBA). AIBA received several requests from various National Federations from Africa, the Americas and Asia with a plea to organize a training camp for their athletes, as they prepare for competitions, in the light of the impossibility of arranging […]

The tragic death of Jordanian boxer Rashed Al-Swaisat has denied our sport and the world a great athlete and a great man. AIBA’s thoughts remain with his family and friends at this difficult time.  Born in Amman in 2002, Rashed started his sporting journey as a taekwondo athlete at only five years old. Together with […]

The next major competition, the EUBC U22 European Boxing Championships will be held in Roseto degli Abruzzi, Italy, between the 17th and 24th of June. Due to the cancellation of the 2020 edition, boxers who were born in 1998 are also eligible to attend the tournament. Following this decision, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2002 […]

AIBA Secretary General István Kovács took part in the 34th Belgrade Marathon, which is held annually in the capital of Serbia. This is a traditional race that has been held since 1988, it attracts thousands of participants. Due to the pandemic, only 1000 athletes took part in this year’s marathon, including Mr. Kovács and his […]

On 28 May, the Global Association of International Sports Federations (GAISF) announced that Riyadh, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, will be hosting the World Combat Games 2023, an international multi-sport event featuring 15 combat sports and martial arts. Boxing will be one of the sports on the programme. World Combat Games (WCG) is set to […]

AIBA President Umar Kremlev visited the opening ceremony of the World Judo Championship Seniors, which is taking place in Budapest from 6th to 13th of June 2021. With Mr. Schmitt Pal, IOC Member & Former President of Hungary and Dr. Zeneemyadar Batbayar, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Mongolia to Hungary AIBA President honored the medalists […]

AIBA is aware of potential issues and allegations concerning the judging of certain bouts at the Asian Boxing Championships held in Dubai. AIBA takes such allegations very seriously. After liaising with several National Boxing Federations, AIBA anticipates the Refereeing and Judging (R&J) Committee will conduct an immediate investigation into the work of all relevant appointed […]

Following the AIBA 3-star Coaches Course and the AIBA 3-star Referee & Judge Course, another education program was scheduled at the ASBC Asian Men’s & Women’s Elite Boxing Championships in Dubai. The next generation of International Technical Officials attended the ITO Course during the competition. AIBA hosted its last ITO Course more than two years […]

General statistics of the ASBC Asian Elite Boxing Championships Number of participating boxers: 150 Number of participating nations: 17 Biggest delegations: Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan with 20-20 boxers Number of medallist nations: 12 Number of bouts in the event: 130 Historical moments in the ASBC Asian Elite Boxing Championships – Indonesia had a woman finalist at […]

The 10 top qualify of male finals were held in the last competition day at the ASBC Asian Men’s & Women’s Elite Boxing Championships in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates. Uzbekistan’s Shakhobidin Zoirov had a fantastic battle against India’s Amit Panghal in the repeat match of the final of the 2019 AIBA World Boxing Championships. […]

The exciting women’s finals were held in the sixth competition day at the ASBC Asian Men’s & Women’s Elite Boxing Championships in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates. Kazakhstan dominated the women’s finals, their boxers achieved eight gold medals out of the ten. Uzbekistan and India also achieved one title in Dubai, where Kazakhstan’s Nazym Kyzaibay […]

The men’s semi-finals with 20 bouts were held on the fifth competition day at the ASBC Asian Men’s & Women’s Elite Boxing Championships in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates. Uzbekistan became the best nation after it, seven of their boxers advanced to the finals while Kazakhstan performed well also and five of them joined the […]

The women’s semi-finals were held on the fourth competition day at the ASBC Asian Men’s & Women’s Elite Boxing Championships in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates. On this day, Asian Games bronze medallist Huswatun Hasanah became the first Indonesian woman boxer who advanced to the finals of championships, and Kazakhstan, India and Uzbekistan were the […]

International Boxing Association (AIBA) and International Military Sports Council (CISM) have huge plans regarding the cooperation on promoting of boxing through international military sports, assisting developing countries that have a lack of sporting facilities and above all strengthening the values of integrity, humanism and healthy life among future generations. The most important task of boxing […]

Lausanne, 26th of May, 2021. The International Boxing Association (AIBA) Board of Directors met online today and discussed key developments in financial and sporting integrity, as well as governance reform. AIBA has settled its longstanding debt to Azerbaijani company Benkons LLC and the other ones, as announced earlier today. With financial stability having been achieved, […]

The second part of the quarter-finals with 24 bouts was held on the third competition day at the ASBC Asian Men’s & Women’s Elite Boxing Championships in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates where the winners are now guaranteed medallists. Kyrgyzstan’s former ASBC Asian Champion Azat Usenaliev is a medalist at the competition once again following […]

Lausanne, 26 May 2021; The International Boxing Association (AIBA) has paid in full its outstanding $10 million USD debt to Azerbaijani company Benkons LLC, which was the main loan for the organization and which had been at the heart of a period of financial instability. The loan had been part of an unsuccessful venture, the […]

Twenty-five quarter-final contests were in the official program of the second day at the ASBC Asian Men’s & Women’s Elite Boxing Championships in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates where the winners are now guaranteed medallists. India’s Shiva Thapa and Kazakhstan’s Vassiliy Levit are the first male boxers with five medals in the history of the […]

Twenty-three contests were on the official program of the opening day at the ASBC Asian Men’s & Women’s Elite Boxing Championships in Dubai, United Arab Emirates where the preliminaries featured in all of the ten men’s weight categories. The Mongolians have done perfect opening in the first competition day, all of their three boxers won […]

The Technical Meeting, the Official Draw and the Opening Ceremony were held at the ASBC Asian Men’s & Women’s Elite Boxing Championships in Dubai, United Arab Emirates today where Mr. Walid Jarrar of Jordan is the Technical Delegate. The competition will start from 6pm on Monday with 23 contests. All of the events before the […]