Boxing Anyone?

Here’s a question you may have thought would never need to be asked: is boxing still a major sport?

Sure the very biggest fights still generate massive amounts of money through pay-per-view, and the best boxers are major stars and recognizable on the street. But on a day to day basis, it would be difficult to argue that boxing is as widely loved as it was 20 years ago or so. Somewhere along the line the sport has become fractured and fractious and even the biggest names in the game today seem to lack the stardust which sprinkled liberally upon some of their predecessors.

Now the International Boxing Federation (AIBA), the governing body of amateur boxing, has come steaming out of its corner with fresh determination to rebuild the sport from the roots up. Its plan (“Boxing 16”) is to integrate amateur and professional boxing in time for the 2016 Olympics and involves strategies to take the sport back to its ”Golden Age”. You can read more about the AIBA’S Plan on:

http://www.aiba.org/documents/site1/docs/Boxing%2016%20and%20AIBA%20Professional%20Boxing.pdf

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