Sulaiman: Why WBC rejected three-minute rounds for girls

The WBC has defined why it won’t sanction 12 three-minute rounds for ladies’s world title fights.

Whereas the boys’s championship distance is 12 three-minute rounds, girls’s title fights are usually 10 twos.

In a trailblazing improvement in October Amanda Serrano fought 12 threes. However the WBC wouldn’t sanction it so solely her IBF, WBA and WBO belts have been on the road for that victory over Danila Ramos.

Finally Serrano vacated her WBC title in response.

At their conference final month the organisation confirmed their girls’s championship fights would stay 10 two-minute rounds. WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman defined why.

“We made a powerful dedication for security. We ratified all the pieces that we have now studied,” Sulaiman defined.

“Whoever desires to strive difficult dangers, it can’t be throughout the WBC construction.”

He additionally cited out how thrilling latest girls’s championship fights over 10-twos have been.

“Maybe it is a coincidence, it got here naturally however the two-minute rounds create enormous motion, nice feelings,” Sulaiman stated.

“The danger with preventing for extra time, you turn into extra dehydrated and in addition drained and that’s very harmful.

“We love the two-minute rounds, particularly for cover and security but in addition it is an excellent spectacle.”

The WBC is contemplating creating a brand new occasion for male boxers to compete over shorter rounds.

“We’re even wanting into perhaps doing a pilot take a look at or one thing for males preventing two-minute rounds,” he stated. “It is going to be very fascinating.”

Serrano’s argument although is that sanctioning our bodies ought to give girls the selection to compete over the identical distance as males.

It is a stance that has been championed by different fighters. Mikaela Mayer desires to observe Serrano’s lead and referred to as for her January 20 world title combat with Natasha Jonas to be contested over 12 three-minute rounds.

“We’re the kind of pioneers who needs to be doing that,” Mayer advised Sky Sports activities.

“These are the kind of strikes we needs to be making.”