With the Beijing Games a little more than a year away, it appears there will be changes to the way Olympic boxing matches are judged.

The International Amateur Boxing Association, which governs Olympic bouts, plans to scrap its controversial electronic scoring system in response to International Olympic Committee demands to make fights more transparent and harder to manipulate.

In the current system, three of five judges are required to press a button within the same second for a punch to be registered. Under the proposed reforms, each judge would count blows separately, with the highest and lowest of the five judges' scores thrown out.

In addition, the cards would be open, so officials and fans can see how each judge scores a fight.

"This caused a lot of debate," Gerhard Heiberg, chairman of AIBA's reform committee, said Saturday. "But it works really well in ski jumping. Why shouldn't it work as well in boxing?"

The committee's proposal must be approved at a meeting of AIBA's 195 member countries during the 2007 world championships in Chicago in October.

If it goes through and the IOC agrees, the new system will be used at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Heiberg, also an IOC executive board member, said the current system was open to manipulation and misunderstanding. He added that the proposed system already is being tested.

With files from the Associated Press