Boxing at Paris 2024 (Les Jeux de la XXXIII Olympiade)

where is the drive for an AIBA alternative?

We have an ultimatum from the IOC that boxing needs a international amateur organisation within 3 years. Why is there no serious calls from domestic associations? why don’t the big 4 orgs try and hash out something?

They are underfunded, But why don’t IBO try and jump the queue and create a program? Might be a new avenue under altruistic motives but would lead them to be ahead of the curve and give the world Olympic attention.
Just a thought

 

Some alternative organization was started, I believe, led by United States.

The issue is convincing everyone to join it. IBA is headed by some shady Russian guy, Kremlev. He'll obviously have support from the Russian federation, since He allows their athleths to compete internationally, while other body - particulary led by the USA - would in all likelyhood follow up on the sanctions and ban them.
Then with many other athlethes and federations, IBA is still appealing because They started paying very respectable purses for medal spots. I know They used to be sponsored by Gazprom, I read that their deal has ended - so no idea where They are getting the funds from now, but I think They might have some support from the government in some Central Asia countries like Uzbekistan.

So at the end - it's political and unlikely to change. Most federation were still sending their athlethes to World Championship organised by IBA. Now They also announced that They will revive the old World Series of Boxing format.
Maybe the threat of removing Boxing from the Olympics will be sufficient - but I hope it won't take the actual ban to take place before some of the people in the sport realise that amateur boxing is nothing without the Olympics and can't be succesful in the kind of decentralised model that We see in the Professional game.

 

Arlen Lopez - Oleksandr Khyzhniak is probably the most anticipated fight at this Olympics. Who will win?

 

Both ?

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I would love to see Lopez get his third gold medal. However I think Khyzhniak will get the good done this time.

 

Pacquaio will always be better than Mayweather Floyd got stopped by a rookie he's no longer a bogus 50-0 He's now 44 -7

 

Does this mean it is going to continue next time? I heard that this might be the last time boxing is in the Olympics.

 

this is why i sort of just think with 4 years grace or more or less 3 years to create an alternate competition and ranking organisation.

i see no reason why go back to AIBA

 

The proposition that the seeding process was 'a random draw' is nonsense. It was a straight-out gerrymander in which the top European, Americas & Asian qualifiers were automatically afforded top 4 status (meaning they would not have to face each other before the medal rounds). Whenever you see a gerrymander applied, it's a case of those welding power making decisions to entrench that power. A truly random draw would have meant that the top qualifiers from each of the five qualification events had equal chance of being seeded top 4. That wasn't the case. Also the seeding process wasn't announced until very late (earlier this month, to be precise). The people running the boxing tournament then put out a video emphasising the random nature of the draw. It just goes to show it doesn't matter who is organising the tournament, corruption runs deep in amateur boxing.