Gimugu claims AIBA removed super heavyweight David Ayiti from the list.

Ayiti suffered a knock-out defeat to Cameroon’s Fokou Arsène in the super heavyweight final at the 2017 African Boxing Championships, which were held in Congo’s capital Brazzaville in June and served as a qualification event for the World Championships.

Gimugu explained that although Ayiti had lost by knock-out, the boxer had rested for two months as the rules stipulate.

"How can you register a boxer after he qualified at the AIBA Africa Championships and when he gets to Germany you do not include him in the draw," he said when speaking to Xinhua News Agency, China's official press agency.

"We struggled to get finances to train the team and also fly them to Germany and now AIBA says the boxer cannot be entered and yet they cleared Ayiti in the previous registration."

In response to contact from insidethegames, AIBA has moved to clarify the reasons behind not allowing Ayiti to compete and stated the rest period is actually 90 days. 

"The boxer suffered a KO in the final of the AFBC Continental Championship on June 25, 2017, when he was unconscious for several seconds afterwards," a statement reads.

"In accordance with the AIBA medical handbook rule 8.5 regarding KOs, any boxer who is concussed for up to 60 seconds must not be allowed to box or spar for a period of 90 days from the concussion. 

"The restriction period was stated in the boxer’s signed record book.

"AIBA understands the National Federation’s disappointment, but our priority will always be the health and safety of our boxers and the application of these rules will always be followed in order to ensure this."

Arsène secured his place in the quarter-finals yesterday with a split-decision win over Moldova’s Alexei Zavatin.

He is due to face Colombia’s Cristian Salcedo Codazzi today.

Egypt’s Uosry Rezk and Angola’s Casia Mbuyi Masia, the two super heavyweight bronze medallists at the African Boxing Championships, were both eliminated in the first preliminary round.

Rezk fell to a defeat at the hands of Australia’s Joseph Goodall, while Masia lost by walkover to Denmark’s Kem Larsen after failing to show up for the weigh-in.

The two Ugandan boxers on the entry list were knocked out of their respective competitions in the first preliminary round.

Bantamweight Geoffrey Kaketo lost to Nicaragua’s Angel Jarquin, while welterweight Muzamiru Kakande, the African Boxing Championships gold medallist, was beaten by the United States’ Quinton Randall.