USA Boxing to skip world championships

IBA’s women’s world championships well take place in March in New Delhi, while the men’s championships are scheduled for May in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

The world championships, which are held every other year are seen as the sport’s top amateur competition outside of the Olympics.

Skipping the world championships will not harm the United States’ qualifying for the 2024 Paris Olympics. The IOC, which announced last year it would take control of boxing the Paris Games the way it did for Tokyo in 2020, will hold its own qualifiers for Paris.

By missing the worlds USA Boxing distances itself even more from an organization many countries and the IOC insist is not qualified to oversee Olympic boxing.

At this stage, boxing is not scheduled to be part of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, and the IOC has hinted that it might pull boxing — a sport the IOC likes for its cultural and economic diversity as well as its gender equity — from the Paris Games if the sport continues to have leadership problems.