Professional Boxers Allowed to Compete in 2016 Rio Olympics!

Professional boxers fighting in the Rio Olympics is one sentence that will create much debate.

Unbelievably this radical move by the AIBA is becoming a reality. The AIBA’s president, Dr Ching-Kuo Wu said: “We want the best boxers to come to the Olympic Games. It is AIBA’s 70th birthday, and we want something to change – not after four years, but now.

“It is an IOC policy to have the best athletes in the Games, and of the international federations, AIBA is probably the only one without professional athletes in the Olympics.
“We already have our own professionals, APB and WSB boxers, in the Games.” Wu was talking to the Press Association recently when passionately talking about how he wants this idea to be put through for the 2016 Rio Olympics in Brazil.

When Wu was asked if this can really can be organised in time for next summers Olympics Wu said: “According to our statutes it is absolutely possible.”

This is an amazing move by the AIBA that could open up new opportunities for pro boxers that have already shown they have what it takes to win medals at the games.

Active fighters today like, Gennady Golovkin, Amir Khan, Vasyl Lomachenko, Guillermo Rigondeaux, Luke Campbell and Anthony Joshua to name a few. You never know, even Wladimir Klitchsko might make a return.

This is going to come as a major shock for the up and coming fighters out there to have the possibility of meeting a professional in the games.