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Nicaragua Boxing Federation President Mr. Diogenes Cardenas died because of coronavirus on Tuesday, July 7. AIBA Interim President Dr. Mohamed Moustahsae send deepest condolences to all his family, colleagues, and friends. ‘I was deeply saddened to learn of Mr. Diogenes Cardenas’s passing,’ Dr. Moustahsane said.   Mr. Cardenas was very active, he participated at the AIBA Forum […]

International Boxing Association Interim President Dr. Mohamed Moustahsane and World Boxing Association President Gilberto Mendoza keen to build strong relationships between organizations for the betterment of boxers. WBA and AIBA wish to work towards three pillars: development, competition, and ethics. Dr. Moustahsane has been invited as a guest at the World Boxing Association 99th Convention […]

AIBA postponed the 2020 Youth Men and Women World Championships in Kielce, Poland, until 2021 due to the pandemic crisis. The new dates proposed are April 10-24, 2021. The Executive Committee’s proposal to maintain the initial age eligibility period of the Championships was approved to respect the athlete’s preparation for the tournament. It remains for […]

International Boxing Association Executive Committee voted in favor to hold AIBA Ordinary Congress on December 12-13, 2020. The decision was made this week by a mail vote with the majority.  Extraordinary Congress, scheduled for June 20, 2020, was canceled due to coronavirus pandemic.  The main topic to discuss of the Ordinary Congress will include such […]

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 […]

AIBA Men’s World Boxing Championships takes place in the city of Belgrade in 2021. After New Delhi didn’t fulfill its obligations to pay host fee as mentioned in the Host City Agreement terms, AIBA has terminated the contract. Therefore, India would have to pay a cancellation penalty of 500.000 USD. AIBA Interim President Mohamed Moustahsane […]

Former AIBA Vice President from Kazakhstan, Mr. Beket Makhmutov, who also performed as international RJ and ITO, died today at age 81. He was AIBA Vice President for 10 years, from 1996 to 2006.  “We send sincere condolences to Mr. Makhmutov’s family, friends and to all Kazakhstan boxing federation,” said AIBA Interim President Dr. Mohamed […]

AIBA Executive Committee on its teleconference on Saturday decided to keep in touch every three weeks to be well-updated about the situation with the coronavirus pandemic. Several important decisions, including the rescheduling of the AIBA Extraordinary Congress 2020, would be made by the mail vote.   “It is important that we are together in such […]

World Champion from Ukraine Olexandr Khyzhniak was elected AIBA Athlete’s commission chair, European champion from Italy Irma Testa became the vice-chair. AIBA Executive Committee on its last meeting approved candidacies and welcomed Khyzhniak and Testa as a new member of the EC with voting rights. They will take part in the first EC conference-call on […]

AIBA Interim President Dr. Mohamed Moustahsane claimed that the organization is waiting for information from the IOC to have an ability to put a new plan for major events 2021. “The decision to reschedule the Olympic Games 2020 because of the pandemic was expected. As all the other International Federations, we are also wounded by the coronavirus […]

Colombian boxing Referee & Judge Armando Carbonell Alvarado died at the age of 53 after suffering a sudden heart attack. „All AIBA Family is in mourning. Our sincere condolences to his family,“ said AIBA Interim President Dr. Mohamed Moustahsane. Carbonell was awarded the Best referee in 2015 in Qatar. He also was representative of Colombia […]

City of Kielce, Poland, hosts AIBA Youth Men’s and Women’s World Championships in November 2020.  Two candidates, Poland and Nicaragua, were intended to host the tournament. AIBA Executive Committee voted with the majority for Poland’s bid.  The tournament is planned to be held on November 2-9 in the Hala Legionow sports complex with capacity 3000 […]

More than 30 Asian countries participated at the AIBA Forum in Amman, Jordan on March, 6th.  “I am happy to see such a huge number of National Federations. We all know the situation with the outbreak of coronavirus. But a lot of you came to Amman and accepted the invitation. We all here are giving […]

Extraordinary AIBA Congress, scheduled in Budapest on March, is postponed for 3-month period because of Coronavirus outbreak. AIBA Executive Committee took this decision by e-mail vote due to the force majeure. AIBA National Federations are invited to attend an Extraordinary AIBA Congress on June 20th, 2020 in Budapest, Hungary.  The mandate of Dr. Mohamed Moustahsane as […]

Amman, Jordan hosts AIBA Asian Forum on March 6th, 2020. After two successful Forums in Panama for America and on Fiji for Oceania, AIBA was urged to cancel European event in Italy due to coronavirus. Although, the rest two continental events in Asia and Africa, planned in March, are still as per schedule. “This is […]

Scheduled for February 29th in Assisi, Italy AIBA European Forum 2020 is cancelled due to COVID-19 (coronavirus). This decision was taken by AIBA leadership in the best interests of the delegates.  “The coronavirus outbreak in Italy worsened and Italy has by far the highest number of coronavirus cases in Europe. Moreover, Italy has imposed strict […]

The second 2020 AIBA Forum was held in the city of Nadi, Fiji, on February 22nd. In total, 16 out of 17 Oceanian National Federations attended the event. New Boxing Academy on Fiji and development programs for Oceania’s coaches and officials are the main results of the meeting. The forum was led by AIBA Interim […]

Russia became first country to host the new format of AIBA Team World Cup in 2020. AIBA Executive committee members voted in favour to approve the bid on the meeting in Budapest on February, 17th. The tournament timed to coincide with 75th anniversary of the victory in World War II under the motto “Boxing for […]

International Boxing Association (AIBA) Extraordinary Congress is set in Budapest, Hungary on March 20th, 2020.  Executive Committee on its meeting on February 17th, voted in favour for the date and place, and also determined agenda of the event. Delegates will implement reforms and vote for new AIBA Statutes. Interim President Dr Mohamed Moustahsane claimed that the […]

AIBA Interim President Dr Mohamed Moustahsane and AIBA Executive Committee members became guests of second All-Russian Boxing Forum in Kaliningrad. For two days all the 85 Russian regional boxing federation discussed important issues leaded by Secretary General of Russian Boxing Federation, AIBA EC member Mr Umar Kremlev.  Dr Moustahsane claimed he supports the idea of […]