The Irish boxing federation tried to join early on (late 2023) but Irish boxing clubs being Irish boxing clubs failed to pass it in a vote. Needed a 70% majority and fell just short I think. They also a couple of years ago voted against basic governance reforms just because despite sport ireland threatening to cut their funding so yeah Irish boxing clubs are just erratic. They managed to just about pass a vote to remove references to the IBA from its constitution last year and are expected to join world boxing presumably in the next couple of months. But yeah the Irish federation wanted to join from the start, the clubs just didn't let them.
Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan have both joined world boxing and Kazakhstan is hosting the 2027 world boxing world champs. I would expect them both to go to world boxing worlds as well. They and a few others might just be milking the IBA for its money at this point.
There's a famous quote from Winston Churchill.
"Americans can always be trusted to do the right thing, once all other possibilities have been exhausted.”
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