The International Boxing Association has issued a remarkable statement which references "fascist Germany" after the organisation was stripped of its status by the International Olympic Committee.
The IOC called a vote after the IBA failed to comply with reforms following its 2019 suspension over governance issues and alleged corruption. In a vote on Thursday, 69 of 70 members voted to strip the IBA of its status as boxing’s world governing body.
The move followed the establishment of World Boxing, a breakaway governing body, in April. Meanwhile, boxing at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics was organised by the IOC due to questions over the standard of the IBA’s finance, governance, ethics, refereeing and judging.
