{"id":77530,"date":"2025-08-18T13:48:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T13:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/77530\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T13:48:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T13:48:10","slug":"national-boxing-team-trains-for-world-boxing-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/77530\/","title":{"rendered":"National boxing team trains for World Boxing Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/laman.jpg\" alt=\"Laman Ismayilova\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Azerbaijani men&#8217;s boxing team will continue their<br \/>\npreparations for the World Boxing Championship in Georgia,<br \/>\nAzernews reports.<\/p>\n<p>The final stage of the training camp will take place in the city<br \/>\nof Gori, and the team will depart there on August 18.<\/p>\n<p>Head coach Ravshan Khodjaev, together with coaches Nariman<br \/>\nAbdullayev and Etibar Abdullayev, has selected the following<br \/>\nboxers: Subhan Mamedov (50 kg), Nijat Huseynov (55 kg), Mahammadali<br \/>\nGasimzade (60 kg), Zaur Gahramanov (65 kg), Sarkhan Aliyev (70 kg),<br \/>\nSaidjamshid Jafarov (75 kg), Murad Allahverdiyev (80 kg), Surat<br \/>\nGarayev (85 kg), Alfonso Dominguez (90 kg), and Mahammad Abdullayev<br \/>\n(+90 kg).<\/p>\n<p>In the city of Gori, the team will primarily focus on<br \/>\ntechnical-tactical preparations. The training camp will conclude on<br \/>\nAugust 29.<\/p>\n<p>The World Boxing Championship will be held in Liverpool,<br \/>\nEngland, from September 4 to 14.<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool will welcome more than 550 boxers from over 65<br \/>\ncountries, competing across two daily sessions.<\/p>\n<p>Boxing is recognised as one of the oldest sports in human<br \/>\nhistory, with the earliest records of the sport dating back to<br \/>\nancient Egypt around 3,000 BC.<\/p>\n<p>The Greeks introduced boxing to the ancient Olympic Games in the<br \/>\nlate 7th century BC.<\/p>\n<p>In 1924, the International Amateur Boxing Federation (FIBA) was<br \/>\nfounded, and in 1946, it was renamed the International Boxing<br \/>\nAssociation (AIBA). Boxing made its Olympic debut at the 1904 Games<br \/>\nin St. Louis.<\/p>\n<p>Azerbaijan hosted its first boxing championship in 1926, with<br \/>\nnational boxers claiming first place. Since 1992, the Azerbaijani<br \/>\nBoxing Federation has been a full member of AIBA.<\/p>\n<p>Azerbaijani boxers have earned numerous prestigious accolades in<br \/>\ninternational competitions. Aghasi Mammadov made history by<br \/>\nbecoming Azerbaijan&#8217;s first gold medalist at the World<br \/>\nChampionships. Fuad Asadov also earned a spot on the podium at the<br \/>\n2004 Summer Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>Azerbaijan has been chosen multiple times to host major boxing<br \/>\nevents.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, Baku hosted the AIBA Youth World Championships, which<br \/>\nwas the first youth tournament to serve as a qualifier for the 2010<br \/>\nSingapore Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>The country also hosted the 2011 AIBA World Boxing<br \/>\nChampionships, which served as the primary qualification event for<br \/>\nthe London 2012 Olympics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Azerbaijani men&#8217;s boxing team will continue their preparations for the World Boxing Championship in Georgia, Azernews reports.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[9872,64,63,961,9874,9870,802,1348,174,1048,164,9873,9871,84,9869,85,940,1346],"class_list":["post-77530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-analytics","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-azerbaijan","tag-azernews","tag-baku","tag-boxing","tag-breaking-news","tag-business-news","tag-company-news","tag-economy","tag-financial-news","tag-oil-and-gas-news","tag-politics","tag-socar","tag-sports","tag-turkey","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}