President of the Jamaica Boxing Association, Stephen Jones, and Jamaica Olympic Association, JOA, boss, Christopher Samuda, welcome the news that World Boxing has been granted provisional recognition as the sport’s international federation by the IOC.
Boxing is not currently part of the programme for Los Angeles 2028 and the creation of a new global body was the biggest hurdle to the sport’s inclusion in the next Games.
The IOC has run boxing at the past two Olympics after the International Boxing Association was suspended as the sport’s world governing body in 2019 over governance, finance, refereeing and ethical issues.
The Russian-led IBA was then stripped of its status in June 2023 over a failure to implement set reforms.
World Boxing was formed in April 2023 and now has 78 members across five continents, including Great Britain.
Jones says now the boxers can train with the hope that boxing will be in the Olympics.
Samuda says World Boxing provides a good governance structure.
Christopher Samuda.
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