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  Following questionable decisions and alleged corruption claims occurring at the Rio 2016 Boxing competition, a global strategy is being put in place to ensure AIBA will address and correct the situation.   Boxing Canada strongly believes that the integrity […]

By Raquel Ruiz for Boxing Canada They are two very hard working athletes who in 2012 had their Olympic dreams ripped out of their hands. After all, to participate in the Games is the dream of every serious athlete. Mandy […]

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 […]

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 […]

  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 […]

NATIONAL OLYMPIC TEAM   More information will be announce shortly    

After nine days of intense competition, the American Olympic Qualifiers have finally come to an end. Thirteen boxers were representing Canada during the competition. Throughout the tournament, every boxer performed well, but only three athletes were able to punch their tickets […]

Olympic Qualifiers event for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games

Boxing Canada’s Olympic trial team is ready for their last training camp before going to America’s Continental Olympic Qualifier in Argentina, where they will compete to earn a spot in the most desired competition in the world, the Olympic Games. […]