https://www.scmp.com/rss/523602/feed The latest news and top stories on World Boxing Organization. A prominent Puerto Rico-based non-profit institution, the World Boxing Organization (WBO) is dedicated to promoting and regulating professional boxing, ensuring fairness, integrity and safety for fighters. Its main areas of focus include sanctioning professional boxing bouts, overseeing world championship fights and ranking boxers across various weight divisions. Recognised by the International Boxing Hall of Fame as one of the four... en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Reuters,Associated Press Reuters,Associated Press Chinese Taipei’s Lin Yu-ting took bronze at the ⁠Asian Boxing Elite ⁠Championships on Monday in ⁠her first competition since a gender-eligibility row overshadowed her Olympic gold-medal-winning performance at the 2024 Paris Games. Lin opted not to compete in the world championships last year after ‌governing body World Boxing announced that women boxers would have to undergo mandatory sex testing as part of a new eligibility policy. The policy was introduced a year after Lin and Algerian Imane... https://www.scmp.com/sport/boxing/article/3349227/chinese-taipei-boxer-lin-yu-ting-takes-bronze-asian-championships-competitive-return?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/boxing/article/3349227/chinese-taipei-boxer-lin-yu-ting-takes-bronze-asian-championships-competitive-return?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 07 Apr 2026 07:00:08 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse The International Olympic Committee (IOC) said on Thursday it was reintroducing testing for gender to determine eligibility to compete in the female category, preventing transgender women from competing. The screening will mean Olympic women’s sports at the 2028 Los Angeles Games will be limited to biological females, which would also rule out those with differences in sexual development (DSD) from competing. The IOC is abandoning rules it brought in in 2021 which allowed individual federations... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/3348045/olympic-womens-sport-be-limited-biological-females?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/3348045/olympic-womens-sport-be-limited-biological-females?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 26 Mar 2026 14:44:48 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Olympic boxing champion Lin Yu-ting has been cleared to compete in the female category at World Boxing events, Chinese Taipei’s boxing association said Saturday, hailing the news as a “tremendous relief”. Lin and Algerian boxer Imane Khelif were embroiled in a gender row at the 2024 Paris Games, where they won Olympic titles in separate weight classes. World Boxing, a body recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), confirmed the decision to allow Lin back into the ring after its... https://www.scmp.com/sport/boxing/article/3347412/olympic-boxing-champion-lin-compete-first-international-event-paris-gender-row?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/boxing/article/3347412/olympic-boxing-champion-lin-compete-first-international-event-paris-gender-row?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 21 Mar 2026 10:00:17 +0000 Sasha Gonzales Sasha Gonzales Efasha Kamarudin is not easily pushed around. As a child, she took up karate on the advice of her parents, who wanted her to be able to defend herself if she was ever bullied or attacked. Kamarudin, or “Fash” as she is known to friends, enjoyed karate so much that she later enrolled in Muay Thai and Brazilian jiu-jitsu classes. She liked that these combat sports required focus, discipline and resilience. As a teenager, she also played football and was a rock climber. Today, the 34-year-old... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/health-wellness/article/3339737/how-singaporean-pro-boxer-uses-skills-ring-dominate-lifes-other-fights?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/health-wellness/article/3339737/how-singaporean-pro-boxer-uses-skills-ring-dominate-lifes-other-fights?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 14 Jan 2026 03:00:09 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Russian athletes are free to compete “under their national flag”, the International Judo Federation (IJF) said on Thursday, lifting the neutral status that had been imposed following the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. “The IJF Executive Committee has therefore voted to permit Russian athletes to compete under their national flag once again, with anthem and insignia in place, beginning with the 2025 Abu Dhabi Grand Slam,” the IJF said. The Russian federation reacted with delight to the... https://www.scmp.com/sport/martial-arts/other-martial-arts/article/3334401/judo-allow-russian-athletes-compete-international-events-under-national-flag-again?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/martial-arts/other-martial-arts/article/3334401/judo-allow-russian-athletes-compete-international-events-under-national-flag-again?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 27 Nov 2025 15:00:10 +0000 dpa dpa Tyson Fury has thrown his hat in the ring to fight new undisputed world heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk for a third time. Usyk dismantled Fury’s fellow British boxer Daniel Dubois in scintillating fashion at Wembley on Saturday. Usyk’s brutal fifth-round stoppage made him undisputed world heavyweight champion for a second time. He initially won all the belts against Fury last May in Riyadh, but was forced to vacate his IBF title. Former WBC-belt holder Fury went into retirement after he... https://www.scmp.com/sport/boxing/article/3318910/tyson-fury-calls-third-usyk-title-fight-warren-says-parker-next-line?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/boxing/article/3318910/tyson-fury-calls-third-usyk-title-fight-warren-says-parker-next-line?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 20 Jul 2025 11:27:10 +0000