Featherweight boxing champion Amanda Serrano has relinquished her WBC title after the organisation refused to permit her to compete in bouts under the same rule-set as men’s boxing, with 12 three-minute rounds.
Women’s championship fights are sometimes scheduled for not more than 10 rounds with every spherical lasting two minutes. Serrano, who had unified the WBA, WBC, IBF, WBO, IBO and Ring Magazine titles, was among the many ladies boxers who launched a marketing campaign in October to have the selection to compete under the same rules as men.
The Puerto Rican fought Danila Ramos to a unanimous resolution victory later that month, which was the primary time a ladies’s title fight was fought in 12 three-minute rounds. The WBC didn’t sanction the fight, whereas the opposite sanctioning our bodies recognised the bout as a title defence for the 35-year-old.
“The WBC has refused to evolve the sport for equality. So I am relinquishing their title,” Serrano wrote on Instagram. “Moving forward if a sanctioning body doesn’t want to give me and my fellow fighters the choice to fight the same as the men, then I will not be fighting for that sanctioning body.”
The WBC president, Mauricio Sulaiman, had earlier mentioned that it might not sanction 12 three-minute rounds in ladies’s bouts. “Tennis, women play three sets. Basketball, the basket is shorter and the ball smaller and those are not contact sports. We stand by safety and well-being of the fighters,” Sulaiman wrote on X, previously Twitter, in September.
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Both Serrano and Ramos had been in a position to compete under the brand new rules with out injury or incident, Serrano wrote on X. “It’s something I’ve wanted for years and finally now that I’m in the position, I will continue my career under that rule,” she added.
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