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Irish Mirror
Irish Mirror
Sport
Barry McGuigan

Women have same demands and risks as men in boxing - it is time for round equality

Amanda Serrano, who headlines at Madison Square Garden against Katie Taylor next month, is the latest to call for women to box three-minute rounds.

That a title fight between two women is top of the bill at the old boxing Mecca is a sign of how far the sport has come.

But if we are going to talk about equality, it is an insult to women to restrict fights to ten, two-minute rounds. The inference is women are not physically capable of doing three. I’m sorry. That’s just wrong.

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