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TAIPEI World amateur boxing association chief Wu Ching-kuo of Taiwan has confirmed his intention to run for president of the International Olympic Committee. Wu told reporters in Taipei on Thursday that he is declaring his candidacy to succeed ...

(BelTA) - Belarus is ready to develop fruitful cooperation with the International Amateur Boxing Association (AIBA) on all fronts. The EUBC European Boxing Championships 2013 in Minsk will give a new impetus to the development of this sport in the ...

THE Zambia Amateur Boxing Federation will next month conduct an international training course for local boxing coaches at which Chiwempala-based Judy Mwape is expected to become Zambia's first female professional boxing coach. International Amateur ...

The world boxing body AIBA (International Boxing Association) has given Uganda an ultimatum of May 4 to hold elections or face disciplinary action.AIBA executive director Ho Kim sent a letter to Moses Mwase, secretary of the Uganda Amateur Boxing Federation ...

Derek Mapp has been removed from his post as Chairman of the British Amateur Boxing Association (BABA) following an Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) of its shareholders on Tuesday, a move which has seriously angered UK Sport which provides the ...

MARABELLA Police intervened to put a premature end to an amateur boxing card featuring female boxers from Trinidad and Tobago and Barbados in the southern city of Marabella on Saturday night. Officials of the Trinidad and Tobago Amateur Boxing ...

Boxing Association of Kenya (BAK) have partnered with the government to roll out a programme geared towards qualifying more boxers for the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games. This Road to Brazil was launched with a week-long referees and judges ...

HAVANA. — Cuba is breaking a five-decade ban on professional boxing and joining an international semi-pro league. Fighters will compete for sponsored teams, box without protective headgear and earn US$1 000 to US$3 000 a month. The country has a ...

HAVANA, May 30 (Xinhua) -- Cuba prepares for 2014 a three-day international tournament in honor of the World and Olympic champion Teofilo Stevenson, considered the best fighter in the history of amateur boxing, a sports official said here Thursday.