Natasha Jonas will maintain talks round competing over 12 three-minute rounds in her world title defence in opposition to Mikaela Mayer.
Jonas will defend the IBF welterweight championship in opposition to Mayer on January 20, dwell on Sky Sports activities.
The bout is at present scheduled for 10 two-minute rounds, as is commonplace for ladies’s world title fights.
However Mayer has referred to as for them to extend that to 12 three-minute rounds – the lads’s world championship distance.
“We’re the type of pioneers who should be doing that,” Mayer instructed Sky Sports activities. “These are the kind of strikes we needs to be making.
“I train 12 three-minute rounds in the gym, that’s the pace that I’m used to,” the American continued.
“That’s the pace I feel like I get better and better, and my IQ starts to grow and I break my opponents down. I don’t have that luxury in a fight.”
Amanda Serrano held her most up-to-date championship combat over 12 three-minute rounds. Though the WBC would not sanction that distance for ladies’s title fights, different our bodies, together with the IBF, do.
“We should be following what Amanda Serrano did,” Mayer stated.
“Maybe she [Jonas] feels it’s a little late in her career for making that sort of adjustment. Maybe. That’s all I can think of. She is part of the generation in women’s boxing that’s pioneering the sport.
“The one factor I can consider is she would not assume she will be able to do it. The petition I signed with Serrano is that we’ve the selection. It’s her alternative. She is the champ.”
Though Mayer added: “Once I’m champ, I am going to set the phrases.”
Jonas however is willing to negotiate. “Genuinely that was by no means something spoken about. That was by no means one thing that was requested. The contract with 10-twos, that is what it was, there was no different choice,” the Liverpudlian instructed Sky Sports activities.
“That’s what I thought it would be. For her to mention that, it was a shock to me because I’d never been told that.
“I am pleased to have the dialog,” she continued. “Typically with the best way that TV works with timeslots, to vary it would make it tough for the remainder of the cardboard so I get that. However I nonetheless have to have the dialog.”
BOXXER’s Ben Shalom promotes the January 20 occasion. He would welcome these talks.
“We’ve been pushing women’s boxing for the past two years and to see where it’s got to is incredible. It’s almost put men’s boxing, a lot of the time, to shame. We’ve seen classic after classic and sometimes I feel that is down to the explosiveness of two-minute rounds. No time to breathe,” Shalom defined.
“I think it creates absolute drama. For me, I like two-minute rounds. Not to say that we won’t ever do three-minute rounds but I think it’s been a formula for success for us so far.
“I believe 12-twos is an effective format, particularly with a combat like this, it might be very shut. I believe 12-twos makes loads of sense. We’ll see. We’ll communicate to the fighters.”
Jonas additionally warned Mayer that longer rounds will not essentially favour the challenger.
“Three minutes does suit my style of fighting, the way I fight. I train three minutes but when it comes to actually boxing I taper down. It does change the dynamics of the fight as well,” Jonas stated.
“There could have been a different result in some close ones if there was an extra minute on the end. Terri Harper would definitely have gone down in the eighth.”
No matter distance they decide on for this championship combat, Jonas is targeted on victory. Already a titlist throughout two divisions, the champion views this conflict with Mayer as one of many fights that may decide her legacy.
“I want a lad, a girl, whoever it may be, in 10 years looking back to say I remember where I was for this fight,” Jonas declared.
“I have to be smarter. I think she knows that. The last people we fought, we were expected to win,
“I’ve obtained to field sensible. If she tries to remain on the skin and field, if she tries to face and commerce and combat, whichever manner she does it, I am higher.
“She’s going to come, she’s going to be aggressive. I’ve got to be the best version of me to combat that.”