The World Boxing Association Championships committee has ordered the mandatory fight between Lithuanian welterweight world champion Eimantas Stanionis and official challenger Shakhram Giyasov.

There are 17 weight classes in professional boxing, and five major recognised belts for each of the divisions: The WBA (World Boxing Association), WBC (World Boxing Council), IBF (International ...

The European Boxing Association, EBA, have filed a lawsuit against the WBA in a Spanish court for 1.5 million EUR. The WBA ousted the EBA in 2011 for reasons they never made public. The EBA was ...

World Boxing has apologised for naming Imane Khelif last week while announcing the introduction of mandatory sex testing. When the governing body released its new policy, it named Khelif, who won ...

Jake Paul has entered the World Boxing Association’s cruiserweight rankings, making the YouTuber-turned-boxer eligible to fight for a world title. The WBA slotted Paul (12-1, 7 KOs) at No. 14 in ...

The World Boxing Association ranked Paul at No. 14 after Saturday's win over former WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. The WBA previously expressed openness to ranking Paul if he won.

World Boxing was founded in April 2023 in an attempt to preserve the sport's Olympic future after the International Boxing Association was suspended in 2019 and banished from the Olympic movement ...

The boxing competition at the Paris 2024 Olympics was run by the IOC after it stripped the International Boxing Association (IBA) of recognition in 2023 over its failure to implement reforms on ...

World Boxing will seek recognition from Olympic organisers to replace the Russian-led International Boxing Association and keep the troubled sport on the programme for the 2028 Los Angeles Games ...

World Boxing is seeking to supplant the International Boxing Association, which was expelled from the Olympic movement last year after a long-running dispute with the IOC over IBA finances, ties ...