{"id":4403,"date":"2023-01-06T10:26:51","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T10:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/mikaela-mayer-calls-for-three-minute-rounds-to-take-womens-boxing-to-next-level\/"},"modified":"2023-01-06T10:26:53","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T10:26:53","slug":"mikaela-mayer-calls-for-three-minute-rounds-to-take-womens-boxing-to-next-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/mikaela-mayer-calls-for-three-minute-rounds-to-take-womens-boxing-to-next-level\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikaela Mayer calls for three-minute rounds to take women’s boxing to “next level”"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n<\/p>\n

\n
<\/span><\/span>
Mikaela Mayer says she fights three-minute rounds in training<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mikaela Mayer believes the next step forward for women’s boxing is three-minute rounds.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

Female fighters are currently restricted to ten, two-minute rounds in championship fights as opposed to the men who fight 12, three-minute rounds.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Mayer is calling for the women’s code to be on level footing with male fighters.<\/span><\/p>\n

“When you don’t allow women to go three-minute rounds, you are holding back the evolution process,” she said.<\/span><\/p>\n

“At this level, that extra time would separate the good from the great. It would be way more decisive of a win and you’d get to see true champion rounds.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Women’s boxing has boomed in the last year, with Mayer at the forefront of the movement alongside the likes of Claressa Shields, Savannah Marshall and Katie Taylor.<\/span><\/p>\n

Not only are championship fights different, but men always compete in three-minute rounds regardless of the number of rounds, women always compete in two-minute rounds.<\/span><\/p>\n

Boxing governing body the WBC have always opposed a change in round length, citing “safety concerns”.<\/span><\/p>\n

The WBO have expressed an openness in the past to consider it. American star Shields has suggested 12, two-minute rounds should be considered first, but like world champion and Mayer’s direct rival Alycia Baumgardner, believes women should be paid more if they are expected to fight for longer. <\/span><\/p>\n

Mayer, 32, began thinking more seriously about a potential change since losing her WBO and IBF super-featherweight titles to now unified champion <\/span>Baumgardner<\/span><\/a> in October. <\/span><\/p>\n

It was a close fight, with one judge scoring a victory for Mayer. The American says she had a gameplan, but after losing a split decision, is convinced the two-minute rounds held her back.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Alycia was always going to come out strong for the first three, and then she’s going to slowly fade,” she said.<\/span><\/p>\n

“We had a really good strategy, and I guarantee if we had three-minute rounds you would have seen me really close that gap on the scores.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Scoring adheres to a system, but often fans and fighters are frustrated by the subjective nature of judging. Mayer thinks two-minute rounds make close fights difficult to score.<\/span><\/p>\n

Irishwoman Taylor’s <\/span>epic against Amanda Serrano<\/span><\/a> in April is another example. It was also a close-fought encounter that ended as a narrow split decision win for Taylor. <\/span><\/p>\n

Mayer not only thinks her fight with Baumgardner would have been more decisive, but fans would see better clashes as a result of longer rounds. <\/span><\/p>\n

“When you’re just getting into the rhythm of the round, ding, the round is over,” the Californian said.<\/span><\/p>\n

“It’s breaking the fight up too much. You’re just feeling it out, starting to see your opponent’s gaps, you have them hurt on the ropes and all of a sudden they call time.”<\/span><\/p>\n

“I just feel like it’s holding us back and taking us to that next level,” she added.<\/span><\/p>\n

Baumgardner a ‘once in a lifetime rivalry’<\/h3>\n
\"Mikaela<\/span><\/span>
Mayer lost a split decision to Alycia Baumgardner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mayer is hopeful she can be at the forefront of pushing for three-minute rounds and that her next encounter with Baumgardner, should it happen, can be contested over three-minute rounds.<\/span><\/p>\n

The former Olympian is eager to be in the biggest fights, and even mentions undisputed lightweight champion Taylor as a potential future opponent.<\/span><\/p>\n

But Mayer admitted her loss to Baumgardner has left its mark on her. She wants to “redeem” herself.<\/span><\/p>\n

“She’s saying no rematch. She doesn’t want to do it,” Mayer said. “But I think that you only come across a rivalry like this once in a lifetime.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Baumgardner, the WBA, IBF and WBO super-featherweight champion, will fight Elhem Mekhaled for the division’s undisputed crown on 4 February in New York. <\/span><\/p>\n

Mayer plans to put herself in the frame to fight the winner by facing another top contender, like Belgian Delfine Persoon.<\/span><\/p>\n

“There could be a situation where Baumgardner has to fight me again,” Mayer added.<\/span><\/p>\n

Baumgardner is promoted by Eddie Hearn and Matchroom. Their first fight was promoted by Boxxer and shown live on Sky Sports.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mayer says she is prepared to fight under Matchroom’s banner to make the rematch with Baumgardner happen.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Any promoter would be stupid to turn a blind eye,” she insisted.<\/span><\/p>\n

“It’s in her court, she’s the champ. If the fight happens soon it’ll be because of Eddie Hearn, not because of Alycia.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Because you know Alycia wants to run around town with her belts and enjoy being champ.”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n


\n
Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mikaela Mayer says she fights three-minute rounds in training Mikaela Mayer believes the next step forward for women’s boxing is three-minute rounds. Female fighters are currently restricted to ten, two-minute rounds in championship fights as opposed to the men who fight 12, three-minute rounds. Mayer is calling for the women’s code to be on level […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4403"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4405,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4403\/revisions\/4405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}