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USA Boxing Creates Esports Task Force

USA Boxing has announced the creation of an Esports Task Force to develop standards and best practices for future USA Boxing esports events. The Task Force’s creation follows the International Olympic Committee’s decision to host the inaugural eSports Olympic Games in Saudi Arabia in 2025, which IOC President Thomas Bach said is a “major step […]

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Albuquerque to Host USA Boxing 2024 National Open

USA Boxing has chosen Albuquerque, New Mexico, as the site of its 2024 National Open from March 9­-16 at the Albuquerque Convention Center, bringing USA Boxing back to the city for the first time since the 2017 and 2018 Western Qualifiers. “We are honored to host USA Boxing’s first national tournament of the year and […]

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The USA Boxing National Championships and Olympic Trials were held December 4–9 at the Cajundome in Lafayette, Louisiana. (Photo by Jason Gewirtz)

Lafayette Enters the Ring with USA Boxing

With the heavy French influence across Louisiana, you would think a destination in the state would be a natural host for Team USA’s road to the 2024 Olympic Summer Games in Paris. But the story of how USA Boxing came to choose Lafayette, Louisiana, and the Cajundome for its recent Olympic Trials and national championships […]

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Boris van der Vorst addressed the World Boxing delegation after being elected its inaugural president. World Boxing photo

World Boxing Elects Boris van der Vorst as First President

Boris van der Vorst has been elected as the inaugural president of World Boxing at its Congress in Frankfurt and will serve a two-year term after winning 63% of the vote in a runoff against USA Boxing representative Elise Seignolle. The presidential election was one of a series of votes at the Congress, which was […]

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USA Fencing Launches Vaccination Initiative in Partnership with USA Boxing

USA Fencing has launched an initiative called Point Control, aimed at fostering health and wellness within the fencing community by providing influenza and COVID-19 vaccinations at select regional and national tournaments throughout the 2023-2024 season. The program is a part of the Coaching You Up campaign. Coaching You Up is a collaboration of USA Boxing, […]

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USA Boxing arrived in Santiago, Chile, early in the week to prepare for the 2023 Pan Am Games.

Pan Am Games Offer Exposure for Team USA Athletes

The 2023 Pan American Games will feature 6,800 athletes from 41 countries, including 631 athletes from the United States. And for those 631 Americans, the October 20–November 5 event in Santiago, Chile, will take on different meanings. For USA Boxing and USA Taekwondo, the Pan Am Games serve as a dress rehearsal for the 2024 […]

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The TEAMS Conference at the Palm Beach County Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Florida, highlighted the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee’s annual Olympic and Paralympic Sportslink and National Governing Body Best Practices Seminar. (Photo by Jared Wickerham/Wick Photography)

TEAMS ‘23 Notebook: Observations from the Sports-Events Industry

The TEAMS Conference & Expo was held October 2–5 in the Palm Beaches of Florida and featured a mix of education, business development and networking for the sports-events industry. The event also featured the co-location of programming from the U.S. Olympic & Paralymic Committee, the National Congress of State Games and others. The following is […]

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World Boxing Announces Inaugural Six Members

World Boxing has announced its inaugural six members of the new international federation with USA Boxing, New Zealand Boxing, Boxing Australia, Great Britain Boxing, England Boxing and the Dutch Boxing Federation confirmed as members of the organization, established to keep boxing as part of the Olympics. All six countries have completed the application process and […]

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Mike McAtee: USA Boxing’s Fight Against the IBA’s Corruption and World Boxing’s Future

USA Boxing Executive Director Mike McAtee discussed the years-long process in coming with plans for a new international federation in the wake of the IOC’s expulsion of the International Boxing Association, the various issues the national governing body has had with the IBA — including fight manipulation — and more in an episode of the […]

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