According to information from the Irish Republic Boxing Association (IABA), the women's boxing team will send 7 athletes to attend the World Women's Boxing Championship 2025. To help the athletes prepare the best, they will set out to China to train, on a 2 -week trip.
7 fighters of the Republic of Ireland attended the World Women's Boxing Championship 2025 are the number 1 players in the weight class they play. They attended the Paris Olympic Games, and won a medal at the continental and world -class prizes. Ireland is also one of the strongest female boxing teams in Europe.
The Irish team announcing the list of athletes attending the World Boxing Championship 2025 also shows the situation of the world boxing right now. Ireland has boycott the World Women's Boxing Championship 2023, but still holds a member of the International Boxing Association (IBA) and is about to attend the 2025 tournament.
In fact, IABA conducted two votes in 2023 and 2024 to refer to the abandonment of IBA and joining the World Boxing. The majority of IABA votes agreed, but not enough 75% to withdraw from IBA. At IABA meetings, representatives of many clubs claimed they were satisfied with continuing to stick with IBA.
The fact that Ireland sent the team to participate in the World Women's Boxing Championship 2025, therefore, was a “right process” decision but controversial. However, Ireland has a reason for them to continue doing so. They are still members of IBA, and the bonus from the tournament is really attractive to the participating athletes.
Besides Ireland, another country has “reviewed” its relationship with IBA is Switzerland. In 2023, Switzerland withdrew from IBA, but then changed his intention. Therefore, this country is currently based at the World Boxing but they are not members of the World Boxing, but still belong to IBA.