{"id":327791,"date":"2025-12-05T21:12:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T21:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/327791\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T21:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T21:12:09","slug":"iba-world-championships-what-is-amateur-competition-with-huge-prize-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/327791\/","title":{"rendered":"IBA World Championships: What is amateur competition with huge prize money?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The IBA World Championships are underway in Dubai with more than 400 amateur fighters from over 100 countries competing.<\/p>\n

Amateur boxing is the lifeblood of the sport with some the best, including Olympic champions, taking to the ring over the next fortnight.<\/p>\n

So what is the competition and what exactly is up for grabs?<\/p>\n

What are the IBA World Championships?<\/p>\n

The IBA (International Boxing Association) run their world championship tournament every two years. The competition was first held in 1974.<\/p>\n

The tournament runs from Dec. 2 – Dec.13.<\/p>\n

Two-time Olympic champion Hasanboy Dusmatov will compete in the tournament.\u00a0Mustafa Ciftci\/Anadolu via Getty Images<\/p>\n

There are 13 weight classes from minimum weight (46kg – 48 kg) to super heavyweight (+92kg).<\/p>\n

Double Olympic gold medallist Hasanboy Dusmatov is competing in 2025 after topping the Olympic podium for a second time in Paris last year.<\/p>\n

“Each World Championship improves on the last, especially regarding athlete conditions,” IBA president Umar Kremlev said.<\/p>\n

“Here, every athlete competes under their own flag and anthem, without discrimination, and with full transparency guaranteed.”<\/p>\n

What is the prize money?<\/p>\n

The IBA claim there is over $8 million in prize money up for grabs this year to be split between fighters, coaches and delegations.<\/p>\n

Gold medallists will earn $300,000 to be split 50% to the fighter 25% to their trainer, and 25% to the national delegation.<\/p>\n

A silver medallist will earn $150,000 and bronze $75,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The IBA World Championships are underway in Dubai with more than 400 amateur fighters from over 100 countries…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-327791","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}