The inaugural showdown will be transmitted live from Sheffield. Audiences can follow the GB Open in the new Boxing World Cup live from Sheffield, featuring British boxing stars such as light-middleweight Garan Croft, light-flyweight Savannah Stubley, and flyweight Kiaran MacDonald, via BBC iPlayer and the BBC Sport website. Philip Bernie, Interim Director of BBC Sport:
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With representation from the United States and Great Britain, the organization was created with the objective of “keeping boxing at the heart of the Olympic movement” and seeking to “guarantee the interests of boxers”. Today, the sport is out of the Los Angeles 2028 program.
"It is a historic result for Cuban boxing," said one of the judges over the loudspeaker when announcing the "unanimous" decision for Garcia, from Havana province, over Reynabell Grant, from Guantanamo. Both are 27.
With a strong right jab to the face of her opponent, Elianni Garcia Polledo on Saturday won the first official women's boxing match in sports-crazed Cuba.