New Zealand is a member of the Common Cause Alliance, led by Dutch official Boris van der Vorst which seeks to prioritise the preservation of boxing's place at the Olympics from Los Angeles 2028.

It has allowed a New Zealand team to attend the IBA Women's Boxing World Championships in India's capital New Delhi from March 15 to 26, even though its preference was for athletes not to attend.

Hartley revealed that five athletes have confirmed they are set to participate, and one was still deciding, but the Men's World Championships in Uzbekistan's capital from May 1 to 14 would be shunned in favour of an alternative event.

"I was on a Zoom meeting this morning with 20 countries [in the Alliance] and none of them are going to go to IBA events from now on," he said, as reported by Stuff.

"We won't be supporting our men's boxers to go.

"There will be an alternative event (in The Netherlands) anyway.

"Things are moving very quickly with the [Alliance] and we're organising other events in lieu of the IBA events."

insidethegames has asked the IBA for a comment.

The National Federation of Men's World Championships host Uzbekistan said it "does not have the authority to determine which countries are allowed", but expressed its belief that sport should be separated from politics.

"When our country received the right to host competitions, today's restrictions on the participation of national teams or athletes in international tournaments did not exist," the National Federation said, as reported by Russian state-run news agency TASS.

"Uzbekistan is a country that adheres to international sports standards and supports the principle of independence of sports from politics."

The IBA has been suspended by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) since 2019 because of governance concerns, but relations have slumped to an all-time low since the disputed re-election of Russian official Umar Kremlev last year.

Van der Vorst was wrongly prevented from challenging Kremlev in Istanbul in May, but delegates voted against staging a re-run of the Presidential election in Yerevan in September.

Boxing had already been left off the initial programme for Los Angeles 2028, and Kremlev's re-election and the renewal of the IBA's ties with Russian majority-state owned energy giant Gazprom have added to the IOC's ire.

The IBA's decision to allow Russian and Belarusian athletes to compete under their own flags at its events, contradicting the IOC's recommendations, is one of the reasons for a significant boycott movement at the upcoming World Championships.

A potential breakaway Federation has been mooted as a potential solution to the impasse between the IOC and IBA, and Hartley did not rule out the prospect, commenting "watch this space" and claiming discussions between the Common Cause Alliance and IOC had taken place.

"There is a lot happening, and it will happen very quickly after the [Women's] World Champs," he was quoted by Stuff.

"The big one is the IOC making an emphatic statement.

"They've got to make an emphatic statement very soon.

"They've encouraged us to do everything we're doing and advised us, but they could help more."

insidethegames has asked the IOC for comment on Hartley's claims.

Hartley is one of five officials subject to disciplinary proceedings by the Boxing Independent Integrity Unit in relation to the boycott of upcoming World Championships.

The IBA has pledged to provide financial assistance for athletes from countries boycotting the World Championships to enable them to participate and ensure boxers are not victims of "the political games of a few National Federations", while Kremlev has described officials who backed a boycott as "worse than hyenas and jackals".