Amateur Boxing

(COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO.) – The largest Women’s World Boxing Championships in the event’s history will begin today in Bridgetown, Barbados with three U.S. team members taking the ring on the opening day of competition. Light flyweight Jessica Ponce (Napa, Calif.), bantamweight Lauren Fisher (Indiana, Pa.) and lightweight Queen Underwood (Seattle, Wash.) will all box in [...]

(COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO.) – Four U.S. boxers recorded strong victories at the first of two USA vs. Italy duals in Rome, Italy on Wednesday. Welterweight Alex Martin (Crest Hill, Ill.), middleweight Luis Arias (Milwaukee, Wis.), heavyweight Steve Geffrard (Boca Raton, Fla.) and super heavyweight Lenroy Thompson (Uniondale, N.Y./Lenexa, Kansas) all defeated their Italian foes on [...]

(COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO.) – Twenty-six young boxers won national championships on Friday at the 2010 USA Boxing Junior National Championships at the Geottege Memorial Field House in Camp Lejeune. Final round action was contested in weight divisions ranging from 90 pounds up to the super heavyweight class with the future of amateur boxing on display.

(COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO.) – A full day of semifinal round action was contested at the 2010 USA Boxing National Championships in Camp Lejeune, N.C., on Thursday with over 45 bouts taking place at the Geottege Memorial Field House. Boxers in both the male and female divisions took the ring in North Carolina, all vying for [...]

By Bernard O’Neill: Vasyl Lomachenko, the 21-year-old world and Olympic featherweight champion from Ukraine, has kept the rest of the field at arm’s length in the latest AIBA World Rankings, updated following the recent AIBA World Championships in Milan.

By Bernard O’Neill: World amateur boxing chiefs AIBA have unveiled their first every official World rankings. The lists are compiled according to performances and points accumulated at ranking events, namely the Olympics, World Championships, World Youth Championships, Olympic Qualifiers and Confederation Championships.