Amanda Serrano, the undisputed featherweight champion, will make historical past on Oct. 27 by going through Danila Ramos in a bout that can characteristic 12 three-minute rounds. This is the primary time since 2007 {that a} ladies’s boxing match could have this format. Serrano, a high star in ladies’s boxing, gained much more recognition after her thrilling bout with Katie Taylor in April 2022. Despite shedding the fight, Serrano’s profile was elevated.
Ramos, the WBO obligatory challenger, earned her shot at Serrano by profitable 4 consecutive fights, together with the WBO interim title. Three of her victories throughout this streak had been determined by break up or majority determination. Serrano expressed confidence in her talents and emphasised the importance of this fight in selling equality in ladies’s boxing.
The final time ladies’s boxing had three-minute rounds for a 12-round fight was in 2007 with Layla McCarter and Melissa Hernandez. Since then, ladies’s title fights have been restricted to 10 rounds with every spherical lasting two minutes, drawing criticism from the boxing group. The WBC, particularly, has been immune to extending the spherical durations for ladies’s bouts, citing potential elevated threat of damage for feminine boxers.
Serrano can be defending her WBC featherweight world championship on Oct. 27.
