Sunday, October 09, 2022
"IOC vs. IBA, Fight of the Year Candidate!" on No Holds Barred Patreon Page
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Labels: Boris van der Vorst, boxing, Eddie Goldman, IBA, International Boxing Association, IOC, Kamil Bortniczuk, No Holds Barred, Olympics, Russia, Ukraine, Umar Kremlev, WACA, World Anti-Corruption Agency
Wednesday, October 05, 2022
No Holds Barred: The Olympic Boxing Debacle, on The WAAR Room with Chris Baldwin and Malissa Smith
On this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman once again spoke with our colleagues Chris Baldwin of the WAAR Room and Malissa Smith of Girlboxing on the WAAR Room. A video of this discussion has also been posted on the WAAR Sports YouTube page.
We spoke with them by Zoom Monday, October 3.
We had an in-depth discussion of the "extraordinary congress" of the IBA, which was held September 25 in Armenia. This congress was a complete debacle and only set the stage for IBA's suspension from the IOC being turned into expulsion, and boxing being completely dropped from the Olympic program starting in 2028.
Since we recorded this show, there has been another development which will likely only hasten Olympic boxing's demise. Going against the recommendations of the IOC and what virtually every other international Olympic federation has done following Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine, IBA will now allow boxers from Russia and Belarus to compete under their own national flags and identities, playing their national anthems for tournament winners. We also discussed the implications of this for both professional and amateur boxing.
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Labels: Boris van der Vorst, boxing, Chris Baldwin, Eddie Goldman, Girlboxing, IBA, International Boxing Association, IOC, Malissa Smith, No Holds Barred, Olympics, Russia, Ukraine, Umar Kremlev, WAAR Room, WAAR Sports
Friday, September 30, 2022
"IBA's Congress Was A Debacle" on No Holds Barred Patreon Page
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Labels: Boris van der Vorst, boxing, Eddie Goldman, IBA, International Boxing Association, IOC, No Holds Barred, Olympics, Russia, Ukraine, Umar Kremlev
Monday, September 19, 2022
"Putin's Plan To Wreck World Sport" on No Holds Barred Patreon Page
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Labels: boxing, doping, Eddie Goldman, IBA, International Boxing Association, IOC, No Holds Barred, Olympic movement, Olympics, Russia, SCO, Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Umar Kremlev, Vladimir Putin
Friday, September 09, 2022
"Olympic Boxing Takes Another Step Toward Extinction" on No Holds Barred Patreon Page
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Labels: Boris van der Vorst, Eddie Goldman, IBA, International Boxing Association, IOC, Kit McConnell, No Holds Barred, Olympic boxing, Umar Kremlev
Monday, August 15, 2022
No Holds Barred: Is Olympic Boxing Doomed? on The WAAR Room with Chris Baldwin and Malissa Smith
We spoke with them by Zoom Friday, August 12.
Allegations of corruption continue to be made against the International Boxing Association (IBA), which is still under suspension by the International Olympic Committee. IBA will not be allowed to organize the boxing at the 2024 Paris Olympics, which will be done by the IOC themselves, and boxing remains excluded entirely from the program of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.
Rising in opposition to the current IBA leadership is the Common Cause Alliance. On July 25, they sent an open, public letter to the IBA board explaining why the upcoming IBA congress in September should not be held in Armenia. The main reasons were major problems, including security, at the EUBC Elite Men’s Championships held in May in Armenia, and Armenia's political and military ties to Putin's Russia during Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine. The letter was signed by leaders of 15 national boxing federations, including some of the most successful countries in Olympic boxing: the U.S., the Philippines, Finland, Australia, Iceland, Czechia, Switzerland, New Zealand, France, Canada, Denmark, England, Sweden, Ireland, and the Netherlands.
We discussed the ongoing crisis in Olympic boxing and how this affects both professional and amateur boxing. We also discussed some of the latest boxing news, including updates on the Oleksandr Usyk-Anthony Joshua rematch August 20 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and the Claressa Shields-Savannah Marshall fight September 10 in London, and much more.
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Labels: Boris van der Vorst, Chris Baldwin, Common Cause Alliance, Eddie Goldman, Girlboxing, IBA, International Boxing Association, Malissa Smith, No Holds Barred, Olympic boxing, Umar Kremlev, WAAR Room, WAAR Sports
Sunday, August 07, 2022
"Common Cause Alliance on Failures of Olympic Boxing Leadership" on No Holds Barred Patreon Page
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Labels: Boris van der Vorst, Common Cause Alliance, Eddie Goldman, IBA, International Boxing Association, No Holds Barred, Olympic boxing, Umar Kremlev
Friday, July 01, 2022
No Holds Barred: IOC Tells IBA Enough Is Enough, on The WAAR Room with Chris Baldwin and Malissa Smith
We spoke with them by Zoom Monday, June 27.
The scandal-drenched International Boxing Association (IBA) made headlines again last week, and not for anything positive. At their Executive Board meeting, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) not only confirmed that their suspension of IBA stands, but also that IBA would not be allowed to organize the boxing competition and qualification events for the 2024 Paris Olympics. They cited numerous failures of IBA, especially in the area of governance.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) had ruled that, in their recent presidential election, IBA's exclusion of Dutch Boxing Federation President Boris van der Vorst, who was running against incumbent IBA President Umar Kremlev of Russia, was unwarranted, as well as the exclusion of four reformers who were running for the IBA's Board of Directors. So far, IBA claims that they will consider holding a new presidential election in a few months, but has said nothing about holding a new election for their Board of Directors.
The IOC has also raised the issue about IBA's failure to properly prepare for the 2024 Olympic qualifying events including no host city contracts being signed, the lack of a sufficient number of qualified referees and judges, and IBA's continued financial dependence on the Russian state-controlled Gazprom energy giant.
"Enough was enough," said IOC Sports Director Kit McConnell at the press conference. Thus, for the second Olympics in a row, IBA has been stripped of the right to organize the boxing competition, with the IOC set to devise a plan to do so themselves.
Boxing also remains excluded from the program for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, with the possibility that boxing will no longer be an Olympic sport looking likelier as time goes on.
Also, Malissa Smith discussed the latest women's boxing news, including Jessica McCaskill's successful defense of her undisputed welterweight ttile, and Christy Martin's new book.
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Labels: boxing, Chris Baldwin, Eddie Goldman, Girlboxing, IBA, International Boxing Association, IOC, Malissa Smith, No Holds Barred, Olympics, WAAR Room, WAAR Sports
Monday, December 20, 2021
"Richard McLaren, Umar Kremlev, and the IOC on the Crisis in Olympic Boxing" on No Holds Barred Patreon Page
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Labels: AIBA, boxing, corruption, Eddie Goldman, Gazprom, IBA, International Boxing Association, International Olympic Committee, IOC, No Holds Barred, Olympic, Richard McLaren, Thomas Bach, Umar Kremlev
