Month: June 2016
Recap of the AOB World Qualification Event in Azerbaijan
As the 2016 Olympic Games are fast approaching, the Boxing’s world is reaching the final stages of the qualification process with less than 50 days to go before the opening ceremony. The AOB World Qualification event is the first open […]
The Wolf’s Journey to Gold
Raquel Ruiz for Boxing Canada A private investigator and a human wolf from Chechnya seems like a perfect team of heroes for a kids’ comic book. The private investigator is John Spray, writer of Next Round: A Young Athlete’s Journey […]
Taylor Lewis Gordon passed away: The world of boxing is grieving
May 31st 2016 was a sad day for the sport of Boxing in Canada as one of its builders, Taylor Lewis Gordon, passed away at the age of 84 years old. Native of Saskatchewan, Taylor Gordon was enlisted in the […]
Professionnal boxers at the 2016 Olympic Games: AIBA’s initiative is now a fact
The controversial and progressive move for AIBA to allow all non-AIBA professionals boxers to compete at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games was overwhelmingly voted in favor of by eighty-four of the eighty-eight delegates present at the AIBA Extraordinary Congress […]