The World Boxing Association (WBA) Championships Committee issued a resolution on Tuesday ordering a fight for the undisputed female featherweight title between Erika Cruz, the WBA champion, and Amanda Serrano, who holds the IBF, WBO and WBC titles.
The committee determined that there is no need for special permissions and that the best will be facing each other in the ring, so it set Serrano as the mandatory challenger to the title held by Cruz. Now they will have a period of 30 days to negotiate the fight and if they do not reach an agreement or any of the parties refuses to do so, the committee could send the fight to auction with a 50% split for each of the champions.
On the other hand, the winner of the fight will have 12 months to make her next mandatory defense. The resolution issued this Tuesday leaves without effect any previous resolution.
Fight won’t happen, Serrano will not accept a 50/50 split, also this could be a mismatch. Amanda Serrano vs Alycia Baumgardner is by far a better matchup
It’s only 50/50 if they have to go to purse bids, I’m assuming they could convince Cruz to take this fight at less than that because 40% is surely much more than she will have ever made fighting anyone else. Cruz is decent, I’d be shocked if she beat Serrano, but I expect her to give her a pretty good fight.
I was more interested in the fact that the WBA could order another champion what to do, but I guess Serrano must have requested this. Hypothetically, if she refused, would the WBA then strip Serrano of the IBF, WBC and WBO titles??
If this does go on and Baumgardner manages to get Choi to fight her and we have McCaskill – Cameron this weekend , we’d have undisputed champions from 126-147 and there’ll be a 154 champion with three belts next weekend. Good times.
I hate seeing females fight. They need to return to household, which was their intended purpose by the lord.
Why Suliman put that 50/50 split to serrano and cruz when serrano is 7 time champion in different category.because cruz is mexican?