Since the new body was launched last month, this was probably the biggest hint that the organisation is serious about its mission. 

It is not often that a President of a National Federation decides to step down to focus on a body that has only one member - USA Boxing - so far and is nowhere close to being recognised by the International Olympic Committee. 

But if you take a deeper look at what's happening behind the scenes, it is understood that the launch of World Boxing has been poorly planned and is an organisation that is nowhere close to saving Olympic boxing or any level of boxing for that matter. 

To start with, World Boxing declared that its inaugural Congress will be held in November this year. 

But apparently, no countries have been invited so far. That is because nobody has committed to officially joining World Boxing except USA Boxing. 

Even van der Vorst's own Dutch Boxing Federation has not yet decided whether it will participate in World Boxing. 

During its launch, it was promised that several members would be announced in May. It is mid-May and there is no sign of any updates.  

Apart from the Dutchman, World Boxing is led by an interim Executive Board comprised of representatives from GB Boxing and the National Federations of Germany, the Philippines, Sweden, and the United States.

But no one has put pen to paper yet or tried to make things official. 

Van der Vorst also leads the Common Cause Alliance (CCA), established to prioritise boxing's presence at the Olympics, which is in doubt from Los Angeles 2028 and not guaranteed for Paris 2024 due to a row over technical officials.

But during the launch of World Boxing, CCA members Australia, France, Canada and Ireland were not present. 

Australia and France sent a team to the Women's World Boxing Championships in New Delhi in March and are also present here for the men's edition.

While Ireland said it shares the same principles as the new body, Lithuania welcomed World Boxing but has not committed to joining them yet, with its President Darius Šaluga warning IOC recognition must be a priority for the new body.  

With a little over five months to go for the inaugural World Boxing Congress, the biggest challenge for the breakaway body would be to get more members to officially join the organisation. 

Their tiny office complex in Switzerland, according to their website, is also being laughed at by those in the boxing fraternity. 

World Boxing's budget of €900,000 (£790,059/$984,375) will also lead to many wondering how they are going to sustain and compete against the IBA, who despite announcing that their multi-million dollar sponsorship with Russian state energy supplier Gazprom ended, continues to award more prize money than ever before.

Adding to that, the fate of USA Boxing, after it resigned from the IBA, certainly provides food for thought for all those considering joining the new body. 

At the 53rd Grand Prix in Ústi Nad Labem in the Czech Republic, which took place during the first week of the World Championships, a complaint was filed with the Boxing Independent Integrity Unit (BIIU) against the Czech Boxing Association "for allowing the participation of USA Boxing affiliated members".

IBA had sent a letter to all participating National Federations at the Ústi Nad Labem Grand Prix, urging them to withdraw from the event immediately because of "the illegitimate participation of US Technical and Team Officials as well as Boxers".

While Brazil, France and Poland left the tournament in the Czech Republic which has been held since 1968, all other National Federations that ignored the IBA communication have also had complaints filed against them with the BIIU.

Thankfully for World Boxing, its biggest ally could be the IBA itself. While the Umar Kremlev-led organisation claims that it has completed all reforms asked of them by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) since being suspended in 2019, the IOC remains mum on the issue so far. 

The IBA claims it has submitted a 400-page report to the IOC, addressing all the long-standing governance concerns raised against the governing body.   

The International Federation said it had also set up an ad-hoc Committee to facilitate dialogue with the IOC with secretary general and chief executive George Yerolimpos leading the team, which also has all Continental Federation Presidents, vice-president Ajay Singh from India and IBA Board of Directors member Jinqiang Zhou, the Deputy Minister of Sport in China.

However, as they "address the concerns", the IBA's authoritative genie was once again out of the bottle here when they denied German public-service television broadcaster ZDF accreditation to cover the event for wanting to report "critically about the world amateur boxing association".

The German Association of Sports Journalists said it was an "intolerable encroachment on press freedom". 

Not to mention, how upsetting so many National Federations because of participating in the Grand Prix in Ústi Nad Labem with possible sanctions helps them is a tactic only Kremlev and IBA would know. 

But the Russian administrator has made it clear on multiple occasions that getting the IOC to fall in love with him is the least of his concerns. It could be the same case for National Federations as well. 

For Kremlev, being able to "provide the right conditions and supporting athletes financially" is the priority. Yerolimpos had mentioned at the beginning of the World Championships in the Uzbek capital that the IBA is concerned about the forest and not the tree.

That was an interesting and slightly baffling metaphor. But in Yerolimpos'  own words, boxing is the forest and Olympic boxing is only one tree. And according to an analysis conducted by the IBA, the Olympic tree is shedding leaves at a faster rate in the last few years.

"Our main priority is the forest," he said. "The Olympics is only one tree in the forest. A tree that we love very much. But we need to take care of the forest as well."

While the power struggle continues between the IBA and World Boxing, the fate of Olympic boxing is something that cannot be decided with three rounds in the ring. That much is clear for now. 

When the final bell rings, the knockout is going to be bloody for sure.