The WBC is proposing that the variety of ringside judges for Tyson Fury vs Oleksandr Usyk ought to be elevated from three to 5, and even six.
Fury, the WBC heavyweight champion, will field Usyk, the unified WBO, WBA and IBF titlist, on Could 18 after the bout was postponed when Fury sustained a minimize in sparring, having been initially scheduled for February 17.
World title fights are usually scored by three ringside officers. However WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman believes that, as a result of this undisputed heavyweight championship combat is so essential for boxing, extra judges ought to be launched.
Sulaiman revealed to Sky Sports activities that he desires 5 – 6 officers scoring the combat ringside.
“That is my recommendation. We will see,” he stated.
“Boxing is a sport through which change could be very tough to get. We’re purists, traditionalists, we do not need modifications.
“I’ll proceed to make the proposal. Some like the concept, a number of the folks within the decision-making course of. We’ll see.
“We had proposed to make use of 5 judges, or six judges. Nonetheless that was not thought of. It didn’t occur. I might nonetheless suggest [it].
“We do have a remote scoring system which is used for training and evaluating ring officials from all over the world. They score live in the WBC system that we developed,” he defined. “We have found through fights done in this system that the more officials that score a fight, the less possibility of a wrong decision.
“Anyone can have a foul evening. When you have one choose have a foul evening and the 2 others get it right, you continue to save the combat.
“You have two judges with a difficult fight and then one round can shift the whole result. But if you have more officials then the possibility of a wrong score goes to a minimum. But we will see.
“That is the one intention to ensure there is not any controversy..
“Now we have the biggest fight in 25 years in the heavyweight division. So we have to try to do our best.”
Whereas that idea is at a developmental stage, Sulaiman is assured that video replays could possibly be used for the bout.
“I believe it will happen, now that the fight has been postponed until May 18, three months from now, we will look into it,” the WBC president stated.
“The preliminary thought was to place collectively particular tips of the utilization of instantaneous replay and we’re in that course of. So we will work with the producers of the feed to see what gear and what communications are wanted, what the assessment panel shall be, simply go into particulars.
“As an example we did instant replay in the UK with Charlie Edwards and [Julio Cesar] Martinez and we just did instant replay in Fury-Ngannou when Fury was cut, the referee he didn’t see any action that made the cut, ruled it a punch and then the British Boxing Board of Control and myself looked at the screen, the big screen in the stadium and saw the head butt so we called it officially a headbutt.
“However the thought of getting the potential for reviewing a serious controversial occurring contained in the ring, to make the fitting resolution, the fitting name on the time is mainly it.
“To have the absolute certainty that there will not be a controversy. That in a fight of this magnitude would be absolutely unacceptable.”