Emerging talents primed for Paris but Olympic boxing on the ropes

Boxing made its debut at the modern Olympics in 1904 and has been contested at every Summer Games since, apart from the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm as Swedish law banned the sport at the time.

Delicious Orie in action inthe Commonwealth Games. AFP PHOTO

By: NewVision Reporter, Journalists @NewVision

Muhammad Ali, Floyd Mayweather and Lennox Lewis are among the boxing greats who have cut their teeth at the Olympics, with a new generation of fighters eager to follow in

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Emerging talents primed for Paris but Olympic boxing on the ropes

Boxing made its debut at the modern Olympics in 1904 and has been contested at every Summer Games since, apart from the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm as Swedish law banned the sport at the time.

Delicious Orie in action inthe Commonwealth Games. AFP PHOTO

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