A letter has been issued by USA Boxing executive director Mike McAtee to the national governing body's members condemning the IBA's Olympic qualification criteria as "false and misleading".

The IOC has stripped the IBA of the rights to run the boxing at Paris 2024, including qualification competitions, due to concerns over governance issues within the organisation.

The IBA said the IOC's decision to exclude the Women's and Men's World Championships was "not acceptable" and "against the principles of boxing", insisting that they will be the "main qualification events" under its own qualification system.

McAtee dismissed the IBA's announcement yesterday as "totally unacceptable" and reiterated that the two World Championships were "not a qualification pathway" to the Olympic Games.

"USA Boxing condemns in the strongest possible terms this attempt by IBA to confuse boxers from around the world, knowing full well that IBA is not associated with the International Olympic Committee nor the IOC's published qualification system," McAtee said.

"IBA is, at best, incompetent.

"At worst, USA Boxing believes this may be an attempt to sabotage the Olympic qualification for the Paris Olympic Games.

"IBA does not have any constitutional authority regarding qualification generally.

"More specifically, the Women’s and Men’s World Championships and other IBA tournaments are not qualifying events for the Olympic Games."

The IBA said it had "taken upon itself as the international governing body for boxing to provide a clear process and pathway" for athletes to qualify for the Games after criticising the IOC for "numerous delays" on publishing a "clear" system.

In response to the release of the IBA's Olympic qualification criteria, the IOC told insidethegames that the International Federation will not be involved in organising the Paris 2024's boxing qualifications and tournament.

The Women's Boxing World Championships are scheduled for March 15 to 26 in New Delhi in India, followed by the Men's World Championships in Tashkent in Uzbekistan from May 1 to 14.

USA Boxing has led a boycott of the Women’s World Championships, with the National Federations of Poland, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Britain, Ireland Czech Republic, Sweden and Canada following suits.

Among the reasons cited by the national governing bodies include the lifting of the ban on Russian and Belarusian boxers, despite the war in Ukraine.

Boxing Federation of India executive director Arun Malik told the Times of India that the withdrawals were "a disappointing trend" and was attempting to reverse the decisions of boycotting nations.

"We are in touch with most of the National Federations and that will be our endeavour going forward," said Malik.

"We will be reaching out to them, trying to convince them to come to India.

"For the boxers, it’s their chance to compete with the best in the world.

"We have been regularly communicating with the IBA and hope that the end results will be good."

The IBA has pledged to provide financial assistance for athletes from boycotted nations to compete at the Women's and Men's World Championships, insisting that they should not be liable to "any political games".

George Yerolimpos, secretary general and chief executive for the IBA, claimed that the decisions made by the National Federations have been made in a "vacuum" and "did not reflect" the views of their athletes, coaches and officials.