Oleksandr Usyk wants to revamp amateur boxing to ensure it remains at the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics.
Boxing at amateur level is in the midst of a crisis as its place in the next cycle of the summer Olympic Games is in doubt, with the IOC concerned by levels of corruption and incompetence.
Boxing could well find itself removed from the 2028 Olympics rosterCredit: Getty
The IOC stripped previous governing body IBA of the rights to run the competition, with concerns expressed over corruption, standards of judging, finances and regulation.
Usyk believes himself and his Ready To Fight team have the powers in place to restore integrity on the amateur circuit for good.
He told Mail Sport: “Boxing must change the number of corruption schemes, it has to decrease.
“But there will be boxing [at the Olympics]. We will make every effort to do so.
“The Ready To Fight Team will make every effort to ensure that boxing takes place in Los Angeles in 2028.
“My plan is to make boxing clean, to avoid the corruption that was in the IBA.
“My team has a recipe for this if the International Olympic Committee wants to co-operate.
“We will get involved to help them. Our task is only for boxing.”
He added on the format: “There should be a transparent drawing scheme. It is sometimes necessary for the number one and number two ranked opponents to be separated.
“So they don’t meet in the first fight. This is a world scheme. This is what they do when they separate.
Usyk has a several point plan to save the sport at amateur levelCredit: Getty
“Maximum fair judging. Teams must be honest. It will take many years and we don’t have much time.
“A new Olympic cycle begins in four years, campaigns take longer than that but we are ready to help.”
The current edition of Olympic boxing has been riddled with controversy, with controversial judging decisions and scandals gripping proceedings.
Team GB were the victim of what they believed were robberies, with Delicious Orie and Rosie Eccles notably on the receiving end of contentious decisions.
A scandal has also erupted over the inclusion of Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-Ting who were at the heart of a gender row with the previous IBA governing body.
The IBA were taken away from the sport prior to the hosting of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, with fears that it wouldn’t feature at Paris as a row erupted.
It is currently not set to be part of the next Olympic programme, but many boxers and trainers believe it is a crucial part of talent development.
Usyk has already previously hit out at the ‘rotten’ system and will join middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin in trying to revive the sport to try and make sure it maintains inclusion.