World Boxing, an international amateur boxing organisation, was formed last year after a breakdown in relations between the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the International Boxing Association (IBA). The rift between the two organisations came to a climax recently at the Paris Olympic Games over a gender controversy involving two female boxers. 

The highly-publicised controversy, adding to the lack of "financial transparency and governance at the IBA”, has put the inclusion of boxing in future Olympic Games at risk.

Consequently, World Boxing members go through a rigorous application process to demonstrate transparency in their election processes, structured dispute resolutions, and functional anti-doping policies, among others. 

"I am very happy to welcome Chinese Taipei, Pakistan, Bhutan, Fiji and Ecuador to World Boxing and look forward to working closely with each of them in our efforts to ensure that boxing remains at the heart of the Olympic movement… It is clear there is a huge appetite for change in international boxing and that many National Federations now recognize the only way we can ensure that boxing has a future within the Olympic Movement is by joining World Boxing," President of World Boxing, Boris van der Vorst, said according to the organisation’s official press release. 

Further membership announcements are expected in the coming weeks after World Boxing’s leaders held a series of meetings with the heads of several national federations during the recent boxing tournaments at Paris 2024.