The World Series of Boxing draft was held during the rest day of the ongoing World Championships on Thursday, which has already seen 12 WSB boxers qualify for the 2012 London Olympic Games through the competition.
It was primarily held for the Mumbai Fighters and the Leipzig Leopards from Germany.
“International Boxing Association (AIBA) President and WSB Chairman Ching-Kuo Wu signed a Declaration of Cooperation with Jurgen Kyas from the German Boxing Federation and Marco Schulze, General Manager of the Leipzig Leopards,” the AIBA said in a statement.
Fifteen months after the first international draft was held in London, where 87 international boxers were chosen to fill the required quota of non-national squad members, 25 more were again drafted from a list of 67 available athletes.
Among the 25 boxers drafted, there were World Champions, Youth Olympic Games Champions, World Youth Champions, World Junior Champions, Continental Champions and many National Champions.
Atoyev is currently the world number one in the middleweight division. The Uzbek is an old nemesis of Vijender Singh, having defeated him in the previous World Championships before being beaten in the Asian Games.
The boxers drafted by Mumbai Fighters: Abbos Atoyev (Uzb, middleweight 73kg), Damian Hooper (Aus, middleweight 73kg), Patrick Gallagher (Ire, middleweight 73kg), Sardor Begaliyev (Uzb, light heavyweight 85kg), Raymond Moylett (Ire, lightweight 61kg).