TEHRAN (Mehr News Agency) -- Iran's Boxing Federation (IBF) Tuesday invited 22 pugilists to attend the national training sessions.

Iran is getting ready for the Asian Boxing Championships in the Philippines in late September. On July 26, the following boxers gather together in Azadi Sports Complex, 10km west of Tehran: 48 KG: Massoud Biravand (Lorestan) Iman Tayyebi (Fars) 51 KG: Mojtaba Faraji (Mazandaran) Ershad Rouhbakhshian (Khorassan) 54 KG: Akbar Ahadi (Tehran) Mahdi Abaeian (Fars) 57 KG: Morteza Ya'qoubloo (Tehran) Meysam Hendi (Hamedan) 60 KG: Mohammad Asheri (Tehran) Noureddin Chegini (Qazvin) 64 KG: Morteza Sepahvand (Lorestan) Reza Qassemi (Tehran) 69 KG: Mahdi Qorbani (Tehran) Salman Karimi (Tehran) 75 KG: Homayoun Amiri (Tehran) 81 KG: Mohammadreza Qarouni (Kermanshah) Taher Jabbari (West Azarbaijan) 91 KG: Rouhollah Hosseini (Tehran) Iman Zamani (Lorestan) +91 KG: Shahram Shahrokhi (Central) Shahram Esteki (Chaharmahal-Bakhtiari) Mohammadreza Noushmehr (Isfahan)

Georgian manager Khamit Brayev and his Iranian assistant Mahmoud Kayhani are steering national boxers.