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India's Hitesh takes on former World Champion Sewon Okazawa of Japan at the World Boxing Cup Finals. (Photo: BFI)

World Boxing Cup Finals: How Hitesh evaded Okazawa’s long reach and stunned former world champion to enter semis

November 17, 2025 11:41 pm

The bout started with Okazawa doing his usual tricks and keeping away from the reach of the Indian boxer. However, Hitesh came prepared for the same.

Indian boxing team at the opening ceremony of World Boxing Cup Finals in Greater Noida. (PHOTO: BFI)

World Boxing Cup Finals 2025: Nikhat Zareen headlines India’s challenge in season finale

November 15, 2025 10:59 pm

The event acts as the season-ending tournament of the new body, World Boxing, where the top-ranked boxers fight to gain some crucial ranking points.

Will India lose a boxing Olympics spot due to anti doping rule violation?

May 17, 2024 5:13 pm

The International Test Agency (ITA), which is overseeing the anti-doping programme for boxing at the Olympics, alleged the said boxer did not file her whereabouts details as per the World Anti-Doping Agency rules.

Boxing: Amit Panghal finds no joy in gold at Strandja Memorial as Paris looks far – 'What's the point?'

February 15, 2024 6:48 pm

World championship silver medallist is full of grievance over how Deepak Bhoria has moved up the pecking order at his expense

Nikhat Zareen makes light work of home favourite to reach Strandja Memorial final

February 11, 2024 8:12 am

Six Indian boxers, including Amit Panghal, too enter the finals that will be played on Sunday.

Boxer Amit Panghal has filed a writ petition in Punjab and Haryana HC over his non-selection in the Indian boxing team for the Asian Games. (PHOTO: Amit Panghal Twitter)

Asian Games selections were biased, was made to feel unworthy in national camp, claims boxer Amit Panghal

July 22, 2023 11:49 pm

A former world number one, Panghal claimed that there is no transparency in the new evaluation system.

IBA President Umar Kremlev (right) and Secretary General and CEO George Yerolimpos.

Sports court rejects IBA appeal to reverse stripping of its recognition; IOC condemns leadership language

June 21, 2023 7:50 am

The CAS decision comes after the IOC decided two weeks ago to strip the IBA of its recognition as the official international body for the sport over its failure to meet reform criteria.

Deepak Bhoria, Mohammed Hussamuddin, Nishant Dev

Hussamuddin withdraws, Deepak Bhoria and Nishant Dev suffer close defeats in Boxing Worlds semis

May 13, 2023 7:08 am

Three Indian men had already made history by reaching the semi-finals of the IBA Boxing World Championships, making it the best-ever haul for the country at a single Worlds event

From spending most of 2022 out of boxing ring to World Championship medal, the story of Nishant Dev

May 12, 2023 8:18 pm

Nishant spent most of last year away from the sport after undergoing a surgery. He’d dislocated his right shoulder in 2010 after falling from the stairs. That injury returned to haunt him in 2022 as the rod that was put in his shoulder got infected.

Deepak Bhoria is one of the three medallists from India at the World Championships.

Deepak Bhoria's journey: From quitting sport in 2009 and delivering newspapers in 2015 to World Championship medal

May 12, 2023 6:57 pm

The World Championships medal is a remarkable moment in the career of Deepak, who had quit sport in 2009 due to financial constraints and was working as a newspaper vendor in 2015 to sustain himself.