The Rio 2016 Olympic Boxing tournament begins on 6 August, with 74 nations represented by at least one boxer. Great Britain and Kazakhstan will send the largest teams, both with […]

The super heavyweight boxers are the biggest of the Olympic pugilists, and several suitably sizeable reputations have been hard-earned in the rings since the category was introduced for the Los […]

The history of the Olympic heavyweight (91kg) boxing category has been one of the most interesting in the 112-years of the competition. Argentina was the first country to dominate, winning […]

No single boxer has ever achieved an Olympic double at light heavyweight, but in 1960, a young American named Cassius Clay travelled with the USA team to Italy to represent […]

As London steadied itself to host the first post-war Games in 1948, a Hungarian boxer named Laszlo Papp was quietly preparing a piece of Olympic history at his gym in […]

The AIBA President Dr Ching-Kuo Wu made his latest visit to Riocentro Pavilion 6 at the weekend where, in the company of AIBA officials and Rio 2016 LOC representatives, he […]

The Olympic welterweight title was traditionally one of the more democratic weight categories, the first ten titles shared between nine nations before Cuba and East Germany traded podium-topping duties between […]

The 1976 US Boxing Team is widely considered one of the finest ever gathered in the history of the Games, between them winning five gold medals, a silver and a […]

The 1960s and 1970s was a golden era for Polish lightweight boxers as the team won three out of four Olympic gold medals, but it was from neighbouring Ukraine that […]

The first fourteen Olympic bantamweight champions were shared between twelve nations, but in the eleven editions since 1972, the Cuban team alone has won an impressive five golds. It was […]