Women Boxing? Glorified Exhibitions? Amanda Serrano? Is she actually good or just 99% of FEMALES DO NOT KNOW HOW TO BOX?

I was watching the Amanda Serrano fight and I see her working her opponents the way you work a heavy bag, you shift from left to right with your momentum and rip towards the opposite side basic boxing. Then you look at her opponent and they cant even place their feets correctly and she just standing still eating every single punch and throwing every punch with no form or class. it went 10 rounds and this is not the only fight like this, Marie eve the other day fought for a title and same thing she kinda knew how to boxing in a scale of 1-10 Ill give her a 3 and her opponent a 0. It went 10 rounds. I think this is the women's boxing in a nutshell the top name in the division kind of know how to box but everyone else doesn't. to me that isn't a competitive sport, no fault or shame to the women competing its just that the skills and talent in the numbers needed to make it a competitive sport just doesn't exist, so for right now it is a glorified exhibition.

Comments (5)

TheBoxGod

It's a combination of both. The talent pool is definitely low. Yea I agree. Definitely is a combination of that Serrano have some skills but skills that arent overly impressive as a whole but applied to the novice lack of talent pool in women boxing those same skills become detrimental and gives an outwardly appearance of being more impressive than what they actually are.

4y ago

famicommander

The number of boxers is too low for there to be anyone good. There are only 8 people ranked in the weight class that Marie fought in. That's a bit deceptive, though. Fighters are usually only ranked in the last division they fought in, and in women's boxing it's not uncommon for the better fighters to fight in three different weight classes in three different fights. And the pandemic has forced a lot of fighters that would've been ranked out of the rankings due to inactivity. And that was just the IBF rankings, not the division as a whole. Fighters have to specifically declare their intentions to fight for a given sanctioning body's title in order to be ranked in it. BoxRec has 46 active fighters in the division, and again, that only includes fighters who last fought at 154 and who have fought within the last 12 months. The talent pool is still extremely shallow overall, but it's not as desperately shallow as the commentary indicated with that stat.

4y ago

tritium_arma

The number of boxers is too low for there to be anyone good. There are only 8 people ranked in the weight class that Marie fought in.

4y ago

famicommander

In the major women's divisions (122-154) there are maybe 6-12 good fighters per division, though it changes because they all move up and down a bunch to fight each other. Below 122 there are 2-4 good fighters per division, above 154 there are 1-4 good fighters total.

4y ago

bballchump11

It's a combination of both. The talent pool is definitely low.

4y ago