The third World Boxing Cup event of the year will be held at the UG Arena in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia from September 23rd to 26th, 2024.
The four-day competition is the first World Boxing Cup event to be held in Asia. It will be hosted by the Mongolian Boxing Federation and World Boxing, the new federation aiming to continue boxing’s association with the Olympic Games.
The announcement was made when Boris van der Vorst, President of World Boxing, visited Mongolia to hold a series of meetings with senior representatives of the Mongolian Boxing Federation.
“I am very grateful to the Mongolian Boxing Federation for its willingness and to host the competition and its steadfast and on-going support for World Boxing and our work to deliver a better future for the sport,” said Boris van der Vorst in a statement.
“The World Boxing Cup in Ulaanbaatar will be a top-class event and my colleagues and I look forward to working closely with the Mongolian Boxing Federation to deliver this important competition in Asia.”
The World Boxing Cup is a new annual competition series in which elite male and female boxers accrue ranking pointsover several stages of competition throughout the calendar year.
The event in Ulaanbaatar will be third World Boxing Cup of 2024, and follows events in Sheffield, U.K., in January and Colorado, U.S.A., in April.
The Mongolia leg will feature contests at seven men’s weight categories and six for women. The winners will earn the right to compete in the World Boxing Cup Finals 2024 which are scheduled to take place in Sheffield in November.
Nyambaatar Khishgee, Mayor of Ulaanbaatar and board member of the Mongolian Boxing Federation, said: “We are very proud to bring this exciting new competition to Mongolia and look forward to working with World Boxing to deliver a fantastic event for our country and all of the boxers that will be taking part.”