Friday’s afternoon session at the 2016 Women’s World Championships offered a feast of different styles across the bantamweight, featherweight and light welterweight classes. There were big wins for China’s Meiling […]

Following a brilliant first day of flyweight and lightweight action, the bantamweight preliminaries got Day Two underway at the 2016 AIBA Women’s World Championships in Astana on Friday afternoon. In […]

During the AIBA 2016 Women’s World Championships, the Kazakhstan Boxing Federation Annual Conference took place today in Astana in the presence of  AIBA Executive Director, Karim Bouzidi. Mr Timur Kulibayev, […]

As recently as the early 1990s, boxing gyms were bastions of masculinity where few women would tread. Slowly but surely, female boxers broke down those barriers to carve themselves not just […]

The Barys Arena in the Kazakhstan capital of Astana was bouncing on day one of the 2016 AIBA Women’s World Championships, with 35 superb bouts of boxing and an entertaining […]

The flyweight boxers were the first in the ring at the 2016 AIBA Women’s World Championships in Astana on Thursday afternoon, knowing that successfully carving a path through to the […]

The opening press conference for the 2016 AIBA Women’s World Championships was held on Thursday in Astana’s famous Barys Arena. AIBA Executive Director Karim Bouzidi welcomed the world’s media and […]

International Olympic Committee members Irena Szewinska from Poland and Pakistan’s Syed Shahid Ali were in the Kazakhstan capital of Astana on Wednesday evening, at a dinner to mark the inauguration […]

(*) Photo: AIBA Women’s World Boxing Championships Qinhuangdao 2012 With the ninth edition of the AIBA Women’s World Boxing Championships ready to get underway in Astana, Kazakhstan, the incredible champions and […]

The official draw for the 2016 AIBA Women’s World Boxing Championships took place at the Rixos Hotel in Astana, Kazakhstan on Wednesday afternoon, following the official weigh-in earlier in the […]