Tyson Fury vs Oleksandr Usyk sees WBC propose major rule change for undisputed heavyweight showdown

The historic undisputed heavyweight title bout between Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk could set a new precedent - with six judges scoring the fight ringside instead of three.

Fury was meant to fight Usyk last weekend in Saudi Arabia but had to postpone the fight after suffering a cut above his eye in sparring. The big fight is now planned for May 18, and if they don't show up, they could be fined £10 million according to Saudi royal advisor Turki Alalsheikh. The WBC belt will be one of four major belts on the line in May and their chief Mauricio Sulaiman, has proposed the radical change to the way that boxing is officiated in order to reduce the number of controversial decisions.

Speaking to Sky Sports, he he said: "That is my recommendation. We will see. Boxing is a sport in which change is very difficult to get. We're purists, traditionalists, we don't want changes. I will continue to make the proposal. Some like the idea, some of the people in the decision-making process. We will see."

"Anybody can have a bad night. If you have one judge have a bad night and the two others get it correct, you still save the fight. You have two judges with a difficult fight and then one round can shift the whole result. If you have more officials then the possibility of a wrong score goes to a minimum. That's the only intention to make sure there's no controversy.

"We had proposed to use five judges or six judges. However that was not considered. It did not happen. I would still recommend. 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.

"We have found through fights done in this system that the more officials that