♦ The International Olympic Committee executive board on 17 March 2025 recommended the inclusion of boxing in the Los Angeles 2028 summer Olympics.

♦ The IOC last month (February 2025) granted provisional recognition to World Boxing in a major step towards the sport’s inclusion in the 2028 Olympics.

♦ The boxing competition at the Paris 2024 Games was run by the IOC after it had stripped the International Boxing Association of recognition in 2023 over its failure to implement reforms on governance and finance.

♦ The IOC had not included the sport on the initial LA 2028 programme, having urged national boxing federations to create a new global boxing body.

♦ World Boxing, now with more than 80 national federations as members, was launched in 2023.