CAS look favourably on Ward’s appeal, but is it too late?

It was generally accepted that boxing took a step backwards in Trabzon when teenage sensation, Joe Ward, was dumped out of the Olympic qualifying tournament on the back of what was a dreadful decision that robbed the 2012 Olympic Games of one of the best boxers in the world.

“As far as I’ve seen over the years — and I have attended many of those championships, Olympics, qualifiers and all sorts of tournaments — and I’m not just saying it because it’s Joe Ward, but it was a very bad decision,” IABA President, Tommy Murphy, insisted at the time.

“If it had been anybody else I’d say the same. It was a terrible decision.”