The boxing program of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China was held at the Workers Indoor Arena.
The IBA World Boxing Championships, and the IBA Women's World Boxing Championships, are biennial amateur boxing competitions organised by the International Boxing Association (IBA), which is the sport governing body. Alongside the Olympic boxing programme, they are the highest level of competition for the sport. The championships were first held for men in 1974 and the first women's championships were held over 25 years later in 2001.
Clemente Russo is an Italian amateur boxer, best known for winning gold at the 2007 and 2013 World Amateur Boxing Championships at heavyweight. He currently boxes for the Italia Thunder team in the World Series of Boxing league. He also signed up for the AIBA professional league, the APB, which launched in autumn 2013.
Vikas Krishan Yadav is an Indian boxer from Bhiwani district in Haryana, the hub of some of India's best boxers. He won a gold medal in the 2010 Asian Games in the Lightweight category and a gold medal in 75 kg weight category at the 2018 Commonwealth Games. He is one of the best boxers of India. He also played professional boxing.
Tervel Venkov Pulev is a Bulgarian professional boxer. He has held the WBA International cruiserweight title since December 2019 and previously the European Union cruiserweight title in 2018. He is the younger brother of heavyweight boxer Kubrat Pulev.
The boxing tournaments at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro took place from 6 to 21 August 2016 at the Pavilion 6 of Riocentro. However, boxing at the games was overshadowed with controversy after there were doubts raised that results in certain bouts had been manipulated. These concerns were upheld in a report published in 2021.
Nikhat Zareen is an Indian boxer. She won gold medal at the 2011 AIBA Women's Youth & Junior World Boxing Championships held in Antalya. Zareen won gold medal at the 2022 IBA Women's World Boxing Championships, and became the fifth Indian woman to win a gold medal at the IBA World Boxing Championships. Zareen works as general banking officer at Bank of India since June 2021. She won gold medal at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.
Petr Mukhamedovich Khamukov is a Russian amateur boxer of the light heavyweight class. Member of the Russian Olympic Team for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and the only active Russian boxer to hold two Olympic licenses in middleweight and light heavyweight.
Bakhodir Jalolov is an Uzbekistani professional boxer who won a bronze medal at the 2015 World Championships, and gold at the 2019 World Championships and 2020 Summer Olympics. He also competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics, and acted as Uzbekistan's flag bearer at both games.
İhsan Yıldırım Tarhan is a Turkish boxer competing in the light heavyweight (81 kg) division.
Subedar Amit Panghal Vishisht Seva Medal is an Indian Army Junior Commissioned Officer (JCO) and an amateur boxer. He won silver medal at the 2019 AIBA World Boxing Championships in the Flyweight division. Panghal won a gold medal at the 2018 Asian Games. Amit Panghal has received top seeding in the 52 kg category. Amit Panghal is the reigning Asian Games champion and a world championships silver-medalist Asian Elite Boxing Championships Panghal failed to defend his gold medal, that he won in 2019, against reigning Olympic and world champion Shakhobidin Zoirov of Uzbekistan to finish second-best in Dubai.
Frazer Clarke is a British professional boxer. He won bronze in Tokyo at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
Lovlina Borgohain is an Indian boxer. She won a bronze medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in the women's welterweight event, becoming only the third Indian boxer to win a medal at the Olympics. She won bronze medal at the 2018 AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships and the 2019 AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships. Borgohain is the first female athlete and the second boxer from Assam to represent the state in the Olympics. In 2020, she became the sixth person from Assam to receive Arjuna Award.
Karriss Artingstall is an English amateur boxer. She won a bronze medal at the 2020 Olympics, silver at the 2019 European Championships and bronze at the 2019 World Championships. She is a former member of the Royal Horse Artillery. Her partner is middleweight amateur boxer Lauren Price.
Manju Rani is an Indian boxer. She won a silver medal at the 2019 AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships. She also won a silver medal at the Strandja Memorial Boxing Tournament 2019 held in Bulgaria and bronze medals at the Thailand Open 2017 and India Open 2017.
Abdumalik Khalokov is an Uzbekistani amateur boxer, who won a gold medal at the Youth World Championships and 2018 Summer Youth Olympics.
Lewis Williams is an English boxer. He participated at the 2022 European Amateur Boxing Championships, winning the bronze medal in the heavyweight event. He previously participated at the 2021 AIBA World Boxing Championships in the heavyweight event, but was defeated in the quarter final by Madiyar Saydrakhimov.
Abrorjon Kodirov is an Uzbek amateur boxer, who fights in bantam-flyweight categories. Kodirov is 2x National champion of Uzbekistan, fighter of Uzbek Tigers (WSB) and bronze medalist of Islamic Solidarity Games that held in Baku, Azerbaijan in 2017.
The Uzbek Tigers are Uzbek amateur and a semi-professional boxing team that has competed in the WSB World Series of Boxing since season from 2016 to 2018. In the first debut season in 2016 Uzbek Tigers won the bronze medal of WSB tournier. For the Team fought Olympic Games and AIBA World Championship medalists like Hasanboy Dusmatov, Fazliddin Goibnazarov, Bakhodir Jalolov, Shakhram Giyosov, Murodjon Akhmadalaiev and many others.
Lazizbek Mullojonov is an Uzbekistani professional boxer. As an amateur, he won a gold medal at the 2022 Asian Championships as a super-heavyweight.
