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Boxing fights for reputation at Tokyo Games after Rio controversies

Boxing first featured at the ancient Olympic Games and later launched the careers of legends such as Muhammad Ali

TOKYO – Boxing’s credibility is on the line at the Tokyo Olympics after a series of scandals saw its governing body given the boot and judging controversies marred the Rio 2016 Games.

Boxing first featured at the ancient Olympics and later launched the careers of legends such as Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier and Floyd Mayweather, and modern-day champions including Anthony Joshua and Gennady Golovkin.

But in recent years it has been in turmoil and International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach warned in 2018 that boxing could be kicked out of Tokyo.

The IOC subsequently stripped the AIBA of the right to run the event in the Japanese capital after an investigation into alleged serious…

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