The national federations for boxing in Taiwan, Pakistan, Bhutan, Fiji and Ecuador have become the latest five countries to join World Boxing, the new international federation which [is replacing IBA] and has been established in hopes of keeping boxing in the Olympic games. The new additions provide a significant boost to World Boxing in the aftermath of the 2024 Olympic Games and mean it now has 42-member national federations covering all of the five continents that compete in international boxing. Further membership announcements are expected in the coming weeks after World Boxing’s leaders held a series of meetings with the heads of multiple national federations in the course of the recent boxing tournament at Paris 2024.

 

The President of World Boxing, Boris van der Vorst, said: “I am very happy to welcome Chinese Taipei, Pakistan, Bhutan, Fiji and Ecuador to World Boxing and look forward to working closely with each of them in our efforts to ensure that boxing remains at the heart of the Olympic movement. My colleagues and I at World Boxing had a very productive two weeks at the recent Olympic Games in Paris when we met the leaders of many National Federations, and I am very confident that we will continue to receive more membership applications in the coming weeks. It is clear there is a huge appetite for change in international boxing and that many National Federations now recognize the only way we can ensure that boxing has a future within the Olympic Movement is by joining World Boxing.”

 

World Boxing was launched in April 2023 and aims to keep Boxing in the Olympic Games. On 7 May 2024, it held the first formal meeting with the IOC which signaled the start of formal collaboration aimed at establishing a pathway for boxing to remain in the Olympic Games.