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Young Talent To Define The 2016 Rio Olympic Games Era

By AIBA

This year, several young talents will be ready to showcase their skills and test themselves on the biggest stages of all with glory the 2016 Rio Olympics the ultimate target. The forthcoming AIBA Youth World Championships, to be held in in October, will be the first chance to see up close the array of exciting fighters coming through.

The new look Russian youth team has now some of the most talented boxers coming through and it could well be that their squad is the strongest one they have had yet. Lightweight National Youth Champion Kristian Stepanov, AIBA Junior World Champion and European Junior Championships gold medallist Sergey Sobylinskiy, current Welterweight European Youth Champion Igor Kharitonov, European Junior Champion and Denisov Youth Cup gold medallist Andrey Stotskiy and European Junior Champion Khodzhiakbar Mamakov make up an impressive squad that many predict will be dominant for years to come.

The Azeri elite team is the youngest in the world, while their youth squad is also coming up strong. They have great expectations for the immediate and long-term future. Two Azeri boxers claimed gold medals at the European Youth Championships in Dublin, Parviz Bagirov and Rauf Rahimov. Both boxers were born in 1994 so expect them to further demonstrate their impressive techniques in all the youth tournaments this year.

Uzbekistan’s best Lightweight fighter Aliyor Noraliyev secured a gold medal at the AIBA Junior World Championships in Astana last year so he will be one to watch. We can also expect great things from his accomplished compatriots Anvar Turapov, Ahmet Comert, Junior Tournament winner Akmalbek Kosimov, AIBA Junior World Champion Oybek Sharipov and Sydney Jackson Memorial Tournament bronze medallist Ulugbek Mubinov. 2012 should prove a very successful year for this squad.

Puerto Rico’s Panamerican Games bronze medallist and National Elite Champion Jantony Ortiz will be celebrating his 18th birthday in July and he will be looking to qualify and compete at the London Olympic Games. His main goal this season will be to secure a gold medal at the upcoming AIBA Youth World Championships.

Current AIBA Junior World Champion, 16-year-old Asror Vohidov, who was awarded the best junior boxer trophy in 2011, is the biggest hope for Tajikistan in the upcoming Olympic era, but he will be concentrating on the youth level championships with Rio 2016 his main objective. We are most likely to see him moving up a division to Flyweight.

The Philippines traditionally have excellent boxers in the Light Flyweight category and with Ian Clark Bautista securing a silver medal at the President’s Cup amongst the elite boxers in Jakarta last July; he will be certainly able to continue the tradition of Filipino success at the AIBA Youth World Championships.

The Dominican Republic’s rising star is Panamerican Junior Champion Huascar Ramirez who, last year, suffered only one loss. Kevin Brown of Cuba will also have some good opportunities of securing some top results. El Salvador’s new hope, Nathan Ridings, who competed at the 16th AIBA World Boxing Championships in Baku is also expected to shine in 2012.

Other strong youth fighters to look out for in 2012 are Kazakhstan’s powerful Olzhas Kalaubek, India’s Agalarov Youth Cup winner Ajay Kumar, Lithuania’s European Junior Championships bronze medallist Eimantas Stanionis, Hungary’s AIBA Junior World Championships silver medallist and European Junior Champion Norbert Herczeg, Serbia’s National Elite Champion Vanja Bacic, Georgia’s former European Junior Champion Aleksandr Dokvadze, Australia’s AIBA Junior World Champion Jai Opetaia and Ukraine’s European Youth Championships bronze medallist Bohdan Blazhko.

It is shaping up to be another exciting year, full of exciting talent.

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Three times World champion, five times European titleholder, a four in a row European Union winner, and arguably Ireland’s most likely Olympic Games gold medallist and yet Katie Taylor will NOT be Irish Elite champion of 2012.
That honour will fall to Carla Wright, from the Gleann club in Belfast who on 3rd February will be crowned Irish champ without throwing a punch in anger. Carla won the Ulster Intermediate championship in September also on a walk over and the Ulster Senior title in December – again without an opponent.

Taylor has wisely opted to forgo her national title rather than take on the Irish intermediate champion, Carla Wright, who has had fewer than seven competitive fights in her career, and most, if not all, of those in Novice or Intermediate events. Such a contest if it had taken place would have been a ‘complete mismatch’ – the acknowledged world’s no 1 versus a novice although one who for the second year in a row has entered the Irish senior championships, albeit last year she withdrew giving Taylor a walk over.

It is true that Taylor had a long prearranged commitment to attend a vital training camp in Georgia during the IABA Elite Senior Championships , she would have been back and able to compete in the final against Wright. Taylor always has been and remains ‘light years’ ahead of any competition in Ireland, thus her own coaches – and the iABA – insist it would be quite pointless her taking on inexperienced boxers such as Carla Wright, so the Gleann boxer takes the title by default .

IABA High Performance Unit Chief Billy Walsh said : ‘Katie is going to be away training in Georgia, and it’s an important part of her preparation for the World Championships’ . ‘The fact of the matter is that Katie is in a different league to the rest of the girls in Ireland.’

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Women`s boxing to make debut at Commonwealth Games

The Commonwealth Games Federation`s general assembly in St. Kitts and Nevis has agreed to include three weight categories of women`s boxing for the future editions of the Commonwealth Games.

The development follows the inclusion of women`s boxing in the Olympics in which it makes its debut next summer at the London 2012 Olympic Games, AIBA said it was delighted to welcome this new step in the development of the sport.

International Boxing Association (AIBA) president Dr Ching-Kuo Wu has also welcomed the move,

“By having taken this decision, the hopes and dreams of many young female boxers will come true after their lifetime ambitions to win medals at the Commonwealth Games were made possible,” Dr Wu said.

“Hundreds of women are training very hard to compete at national, continental and international level and I am convinced that a lot of these women will relish competing at the Commonwealth Games,” he added.

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By AIBA

09-12-2011

The Egyptian national boxing team has been preparing to the upcoming 12th Arab Games under the careful supervision of their experienced Cuban Head Coach Julio Lee Hechevarria. With competitors in each weight class they will be targeting at least two gold medals.  With a strong pedigree in the sport since securing one silver and two bronze medals at the 2004 Athens Summer Olympic Games, the North African country will look to impress in Doha.

Look out for 18-year-old Youth Olympic Games bronze medallist and AIBA Youth World Championships bronze medallist Hesham Yehya Mahmoud Abdelaal from Mansourah who hopes to go all the way. He is the youngest member of the travelling team and their most promising star.

Mohamed Ramadan Eliwa is the current Arab Games titleholder and the vastly experienced campaigner, a veteran of three AIBA World Championships, will be gunning for gold when the competition gets under way. Just as another defending champion, 26-year-old Hossam Hussein Bakr Abdin will be looking to overcome his big rival Mehdi Khalsi from Morocco in the Welterweight category.

The team will be led by captain Mohamed Abdelmaghoud Abouelfetouh Hikal, the experienced 32-year-old AIBA World Championships bronze medallist and three-time Olympian. With Karem Said El-Ghannam competing in the Heavyweight division and Super Heavyweight Madian Essa Kassem also present, the nation will be expectant of success.

The Qatari boxing team will be hoping home support can spur them onto success. With a good season under their belt, having competed in several international tournaments such as the Arabic Championships, the Belgrade Winner Tournament in Serbia, the China Open Tournament, the World Military Games and the 16th AIBA World Boxing Championships, they have high hopes in Doha.

Asian Games bronze medallist 30-year-old Hzam Nabah will be looking to do damage in the Middleweight category, having already showcased his devastating power when triumphing over Romania’s AIBA World Championships bronze medallist Bogdan Juratoni at the Hakija Turajlic Memorial Tournament in Sarajevo.

Top Bantamweight, 30-year-old Mohamed Abdullateef Sadiq will be looking to add the only trophy missing from his collection of Arab Championship medals since joining his national squad in 2002.

Lightweight Othman Jumani Arbabi, a soldier in the Qatari Army and veteran of three Military World Championships, claimed a silver medal at the Doha International Challenge in October and will now look to go one step further. Pan Arab Military Games silver medallist 27-year-old Mohamed Abdulrahman Al-Toum will be fighting in the Light Welterweight category and having reached the semi-finals at the last edition of the Arab Games, will hope to surpass his previous achievements and triumph on home-soil.

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