The Association of Boxing Alliances in the Philippines (ABAP) have been swamped with offers and invites to hold camp overseas and take part in tournaments as well in the first two months of 2025.

But ABAP executive director Marcus Manalo told DAILY TRIBUNE that the association is carefully plotting its next move.

“We have invitations for camp and tournaments in January and February but most likely our first tournament will be March or April,” Manalo said.

“(There’s no) actual calendar yet but first two months will just be purely buildup as they are coming from a long break.”

Given the Christmas holidays, the boxers will be going home to their respective families in the provinces for the annual feast.

The ABAP is bracing for a tough grind in 2025.

The two major meets next year are the world championships in Liverpool, England, from 4 to 14 September and the 33rd Southeast Asian Games from 9 to 20 December with Chonburi in Thailand as the main hub.

The Liverpool slugfest will be staged by World Boxing, the international federation that has the inside track in running the sport in the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.

Thailand is the SEA Games defending champion in boxing after it wound with a gold-silver-bronze haul of 9-2-1 in the 2023 edition in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The Philippines had a 4-5-1 tally.

The ABAP is pressured to deliver and live up to its billing as one of the country’s top producers of big finishes on the world stage following its two-bronze output in the Paris Olympics courtesy of flyweight Aira Villegas and featherweight Nesthy Petecio.

In the rescheduled 2021 Tokyo Games, the ABAP went home with two silver and one bronze medals as Petecio and fly Carlo Paalam settled for runnerup finishes. Middleweight Eumir Marcial provided the bronze after fading in the semis.