[4] The communists reacted by founding Kampforbundet for Rød Sportsenhet at a meeting at the facilities of the sports club SK Sleipner in Oslo, in late May 1931.
[4] A debate emerged at the founding meeting, whether Workers' Defense Corps should be formed within the framework of the organization.
[4] In 1933, the organization made an offer to the (much larger) AIF to cooperate with the logistics surrounding the reception of a Soviet sports' team.
Following internal consultations and recommendations from the Communist Party and Sportintern, the agreement that the Rød sport negotiating team had accepted was rejected.
Negotiations broke down, and in the end the Soviet boxing team only participated in events organized by Rød sport.