COMPETITIONS - World Boxing

World Boxing competitions began in the latter part of 2023 and are devised World Boxing is committed to providing high-quality competitions that enable boxers to develop and progress and works with National Federations and key stakeholders to deliver a range of competitive opportunities for male and female boxers at all levels.

As part of its competition plan, World Boxing hosts an Elite and an U19 World Boxing Championships for men and women every two years. Following the formation of continental confederations, the same approach will apply to Continental Championships. It has also established two new competition formats, the World Boxing Cup and the World Boxing Challenge, which are designed in the interests of boxers and aim to bring greater structure and meaning to the calendar in international Olympic-style boxing.

The World Boxing Cup is an annual competition series in which elite male and female boxers compete in the course of the year over several stages to accrue ranking points. It culminates in a year-end Finals event in which the stage winners and other top-ranked boxers compete for the main trophy.

The World Boxing Challenge is designed to provide a structure to the existing network of smaller competitions delivered by National Federations and awards ranking points to boxers based on their performances at these events which count towards their eligibility to compete in the World Boxing Cup and at major tournaments including Continental and World Championships.

As part of its commitment to inclusion and creating opportunities for boxers at every level, World Boxing also works with member National Federations to deliver a calendar of tournaments that provide competitive opportunities for U15, U17 and U19 male and female boxers, as well as Elite men and women.

In October 2024, World Boxing hosted its first global championships when more than 180 male and female boxers, aged 17 and 18, took part in the U19 World Boxing Championships in Colorado Springs, USA.

The first Elite World Boxing Championships for men and women be held in Liverpool, England, 4-14 September 2025. Following a bidding process, Astana in Kazakhstan will host the 2027 Elite World Boxing Championships for men and women.

The first World Boxing Cup competition was held in Cologne in Germany in October 2023 and the first series took place in 2024. It featured competitions in England, USA and Mongolia and culminated in a Finals event in England in November 2024.

The 2025 World Boxing Cup events will take place in Brazil, Germany and Kazakhstan. The season Finals will be held in India in November 2025.

SPORTING INTEGRITY

Ensuring sporting integrity is central to World Boxing’s mission and means that all major tournaments and World Boxing Cups are subject to independent, third-party scrutiny with the appointment of external assessors who oversee and report on all aspects of competition management including refereeing and judging and the appointment and role of officials.

This operating structure reflects the approach taken by the IOC’s Boxing Task Force (BTF) for Tokyo 2020 and the Paris Boxing Unit (PBU) at Paris 2024 when independent assessors were appointed to review the refereeing and judging at all qualification events and the Olympic tournaments.

This way of operating ensures that World Boxing competitions are subject to independent, third-party oversight and deliver fair competition for the boxers where the outcome is determined solely by performance in the ring.

EVENT BIDDING

All of World Boxing’s member National Federations are welcome to bid to host events, and decisions on the timing and location of these are subject to clear procedures that are designed to provide certainty to boxers, coaches and National Federations and enable them to plan and prepare for tournaments with the confidence that they will happen at the time and location when they are scheduled to take place. Timelines and processes for bidding for events are transparent with fixed deadlines and decisions on hosting and timing are made in the interests of boxers. Once events have been allocated and dates confirmed, World Boxing has processes in-place to ensure that these cannot be amended.

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