Something really went under the radar recently both for amateur boxing and the entire sport of boxing as a whole, including professional boxing.
Filipino and boxing legend Manny Pacquiao has one of the best years ever yet in his fight career.
He became an active boxer in the Hall of Fame, something usually you have to be dead five years at least to be considered for.
Then the eight-division world champion at 46 fought 30-year-old Marrio Barios to a draw for the WBC welterweight title, most thinking Pacquiao won.
Manny Pacquiao Became One Of The Most Powerful Men In Amateur Boxing And Not Many Realize How
Now he has been made the Vice President of the IBA (International Boxing Association).
This clarifies things from his Instagram post:
How that went under the radar with basically no one reporting it, is baffling.
That is huge for boxing.
With middleweight legend Gennady Golovkin now the President of World Boxing in amateur boxing, if he and Pacquiao can work together the future of amateur boxing will prevail.
At the highest level of the sport in professional boxing — pro boxing continues to take off all the time and is going to new levels soon.
Back to being shown to the masses like in the 80s and the 1930s.
