The official draw for the Rio 2016 Olympic Boxing Tournament took place in Barra da Tijuca on Thursday morning, watched by technical commissions from the 76 nations taking part and the world’s media ...

With no Americans in action on Day 2 of the Olympic boxing tournament, the biggest storyline was former IBF flyweight champion Amnat Ruenroeng scoring a decision victory to avoid the embarrassment of ...

The publication follows the completion of the Olympic Boxing Test Event in the Brazilian city. Cuba have proved the proved the most successful nation in qualifying to date with seven of their boxers ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - On debut day for Olympic boxing, fighters said they were happy to be competing at the first Games since 1980 without protective headgear, welcoming better peripheral vision ...

A bout manipulation system existed in boxing at the 2016 Rio Olympics, Richard McLaren, the head of the independent investigation commissioned by the sport's world governing AIBA, said in his report ...

A new training centre will serve up to 100 young athletes from the age of 12 upwards and will be based at the Maria Lenk Aquatic Park in Rio. As part of their training programme, the young boxers will ...

After accusations of corruption from athletes at the 2016 Rio Olympics, the AIBA has suspended every boxing ref and judge that served at the games. The AIBA — the lead world amateur boxing ...

DUBLIN, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Irish Olympic boxing champion Katie Taylor will defend her title at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games after revealing on Thursday that she had rejected lucrative professional ...