ABA fined and their former boss banned from boxing

The former chief executive of the Amateur Boxing Association of England (ABAE), Paul King (pictured) has been banned from all involvement in the sport for two years by the International Amateur Boxing Association (AIBA) following his failed bid to take over the sport on a global basis.

The ABAE have also been fined the equivalent of £700 for their involvement in an attempt to disrupt 2010 AIBA Congress in Almaty, Kazakhstan, last October.

King, a former AIBA Council Member, outraged some colleagues by attempting a controversial campaign to challenge Taiwanese C K Wu for the Presidency of world boxing and then attempting to postpone the Congress.

The Congress went ahead regardless and following the re-election of Wu, the AIBA Disciplinary Commission began an investigation against 13 federations to determine to what extent they were involved in attempts to postpone the Congress.

According to Tom Degun of the excellent insidethegames.biz, the AIBA has also suspended General Taweep Jantararoj, the President of the Amateur Boxing Association of Thailand, from all involvement in amateur boxing for two years. Bangladesh, Macedonia and Timor have escaped without sanction but Belgium, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, England, Ethiopia, Laos, Nepal, Romania, Thailand and Ukraine have all been hit with a fine of CHF 1,000 (£700/$1,140) for their attempts to get postpone the Congress.