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Amanda Serrano is perhaps the best women's boxer on the planet and she is giving up one of her belts to protest a major sanctioning body of boxing, the WBC.
The decision came just over a month after Serrano defeated Danila Ramos in the first-ever 12-round, three-minute women's title fight. Serrano retained six of her belts, but the WBC did not sanction the fight. With that, she decided to sever any ties with the WBC.
“The WBC has refused to evolve the sport for equality. So I am relinquishing their title,” Serrano said 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.”
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Serrano and other women's boxers fought hard to get the choice of fighting 12, three-minute-round bouts. Now that Serrano did it and succeeded during the fight, she wants to stick with it, or at least continue to have the option to choose.
The WBC has long sighted the safety of the fighters as the reason why it won’t sanction three-minute rounds. Serrano and Ramos showed that women can survive 36 minutes in the ring. Serrano wants to continue to do so and there's no reason to believe the other sanctioning bodies won’t allow her and other women's boxers the same luxury going forward.
Amanda Serrano is not afraid to take a stand and continues to be a beacon of light in the women's boxing world. The 35-year-old champion always goes to bat for women in the ring and won't let a belt get in the way of progress.
