FEBRUARY 2 - FORMER world champion Richie Woodhall (pictured) is to help guide the fortunes of Britain's amateur boxers for London 2012, it was announced today.

DECEMBER 19 - THE Irish Amateur Boxing Association (IABA) are hoping to celebrate their centenary year by staging the 2011 World Senior Championships in Dublin.

DECEMBER 22 - THE International Amateur Boxing Association's (AIBA) new president Ching-Kuo Wu (pictured)has set up a reform committee and appointed International Olympic Committee executive board member Gerhard Heiberg as its chairman as the sport aims to repair its tarnished reputation.

NOVEMBER 11 - LONDON'S HMS President provided the striking setting for the launch of a unique partnership between the Royal Navy and the Amateur Boxing Association of England which should help the country's best young boxers prepare for the 2012 Olympics.

NOVEMBER 17 - THE International Boxing Association (AIBA) plans to use the Women's World Championships beginning in India tomorrow to press for inclusion in the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi and the 2012 Olympics in London.

JULY 1 - THE Amateur Boxing Association of England (ABAE) is to relocate to the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield in September.

NOVEMBER 2 - BIRMINGHAM lightweight Frankie Gavin (pictured) produced the performance of the tournament so far to claim a place in the final of the World Amateur Championships in Chicago tonight.

NOVEMBER 3 - BIRMINGHAM lightweight Frankie Gavin (pictured) was crowned England's first ever World Amateur champion in Chicago tonight after a magnificent 18-10 victory over Italian Domenico Valentino.

MARCH 4 - IRELAND'S Olympic boxing silver medallist Kenny Egan (pictured) is to hold talks with head coach Billy Walsh after failing to turn up for an international match last week.

DECEMBER 30 - KEVIN HICKEY is expected next week to be named as the new performance director at the Amateur Boxing Association of England (ABAE), ending a 20-year absence from the sport as he is given the job of looking after London 2012 prospects like Luke Campbell (pictured).