Boxing Discussion | Qualification to Summer Olympic Games Los Angeles 2028 Road to LA 2028

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Edited August 4 by Sindo

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Not sure if this is the right thread but there is no 2025 boxing discussion thread so .

 

Anyway the Standja tournament starts tomorrow. Its not a great field for ye know various reasons (womens world champs in a couple of weeks/  IBA run tournament). It's mostly just the Uzbek and Kazakh A and B men's teams and not a whole lot else but the draw has thrown up a potentially reallly good fight in the opening round where Olympic champion Asadkhuja Muydinkhujaev  meets the boxer of the tournament from the youth world championships last year Torekhan Sabyrkhan  who comes with a ludicrous amount of hype.

Muydinkhujaev might just win easily but it could be a great fight. 14:00/ 14;15 ish GMT tomorrow on bulgarian boxing youtube channel.

 

(On an unrelated note I wrote quite a long and likely misguided early projection of a potential Irish Olympic squad for LA on the Irish club's thread if anyone is interested.)

Edited February 24 by Ogreman

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https://worldboxing.org/ioc-confirms-gender-parity-in-boxing-at-la28-with-seven-weight-classes-for-both-men-and-women/

 

 

 

Well I didn't see this coming but eh world boxing have gotten rid of men's flyweight!!!!!

Non Olympics weights are now 50kg, 75kg and 85kg for the men and 48kg, 80kg and 80+kg for the women. I think it is good news that they haven't added womens heavyweight but men's flyweight being gone is a shocker especially for "smaller" nations. In Rio like we had both 49 and 52kg below 56kg but now flyweight is gone completely. I mean it is tricky to have 10 weightclasses and then have only 7 for the Olympics and for both the 10 and the 7 to be evenly spaced out but like im very surprised that its flyweight thats gone and not one of 55,60,65kg.

To be honest selfishly from an Irish perspective at least for this cycle I don't hate it but flyweight was one of the most competitive divisions so it being gone will hurt the weaker (well i couldn't make the small joke twice) boxing countries.

 

Just for context the Paris weights were (M51, M57, M63.5, M71, M80, M92 and M92+ and then W50, W54, W57, W60, W66, W75)

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Imane Khelif must undergo mandatory sex testing to compete, World Boxing says

 

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/may/30/imane-khelif-must-undergo-mandatory-sex-testing-world-boxing-says

[bestmen 2,903]

is it true ? 

 

IOC makes huge decision on Imane Khelif returning her Olympic gold medal

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3 hours ago, bestmen said:

is it true ? 

 

IOC makes huge decision on Imane Khelif returning her Olympic gold medal

Don't think so, there consensus seems to be the result stands but it won't happen again.  

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Roy Jones Jr has his 1988 Olympic gold medal, because his opponent in that final didn't consider himself the winner.