IT’S COMPLETELY understandable why a group of female boxers are lobbying for their contests to be increased in duration. Currently, at professional level, their bouts are scheduled over four, six, eight or 10 rounds, with those rounds lasting two minutes each. It means that championship fights will be over 10-twos, which is a total of 20 minutes, some way below the men’s 12-threes (36 minutes).
Having spoken to several female boxers about this in recent years, one of the