As we celebrate International Boxing Day again on 27 August, we commemorate 50 years since the International Boxing Association’s premier event began: the IBA World Boxing Championships. In 1974, the […]

A total of 39 participants from Tanzania, Kenya, Namibia, and Uganda are the latest to be welcomed into the IBA officiating family, having completed the IBA 1-Star Referee and Judges […]

It was an evening to remember for Albert Ramirez as he won the main event at IBA Champions’ Night La Guaira, marking his homecoming to Venezuela in his first professional […]

Tijuana may be where Albert Ramirez cut his teeth, but there is nothing like a home crowd. Ramirez was often the antagonist in his early professional bouts, vanquishing his Mexican […]

Julio Cesar La Cruz is to main event Cuba’s first IBA Champions’ Night Havana as he eyes becoming the IBA Pro World Champion at 92kg on home soil against Uzbekistan’s […]

Top African boxers Alcinda Dos Santos from Mozambique and Patrick Chinyemba from Zambia have for the first time spoken about how the IBA prize money has changed their lives. Ethiopian […]

The International Boxing Association (IBA) has opened registration for the IBA Youth World Boxing Championships taking place from 23 October – 5 November 2024 in the city of Budva, Montenegro. […]

Zambia’s boxing posterboy Patrick ‘Baddo’ Chinyemba captured the IBA African Flyweight title via a fourth-round technical knockout victory over Ghana’s Theophilus ‘Lopez’ Allotey in the first-ever IBA Champions’ Night card […]

Ask anyone with a strong understanding of the sport and they will likely tell you the 1970s was the best decade in boxing history. The Fight of the Century between […]

Partick Chinyemba from Zambia and Theophilus Allotey from Ghana cannot wait to face each other in the ring at IBA Champions’ Night in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia for the vacant IBA […]