Dylan Bettencourt
Okokuqala ngqa emlandweni wesibhakela, abesifazane ababili bazobhekana e-Madison Square Garden e-New York.
Abashayisibhakela uKatie Taylor no-Amanda Serrano bazoqhudelana ekupheleni kukaMbasa.
Ukwenyuka kwesibhakela sabesifazane kukhuphuke kakhulu eminyakeni yakamuva kanti lo mqhudelwano uzokwandisa ukuduma kwawo.
Impi phakathi kwalaba besifazane ababili enkundleni yodumo ayikaze ibonakale ngaphambilini.
UMuhammad Ali walwa noJoe Frazer kabili kule nkundla yodumo kwathi uRocky Marciano washaya uJoe Louis endaweni efanayo.
Impi phakathi kukaTaylor noSerrano inamandla okuba ingqophamlando yesibhakela sabesifazane, ithengise inkundla emumatha abantu abangu-20,000 ngemizuzu nje.
Impi yokuqala yesibhakela phakathi kwabesifazane ababili e-United Kingdom yenzeka eminyakeni engu-23 edlule. Kodwa isibhakela sabesifazane manje sikhula kakhulu. Sinyuke ngo-65% isibalo samalungu abesifazane be-Boxing England kusukela ngo-2017, ngokombiko owenziwe yile nhlangano.
Umshayisibhakela wase-Ireland uTaylor, owaqala isibhakela esemncane ngasekupheleni kwango-1990, waphoqeleka ukuba azenze umfana ukuze aziqeqeshe.
“Ngesikhathi ngiqala, isibhakela sabesifazane sasingavumelekile e-Ireland. Leso kwakuyisithiyo esikhulu okwakumele ngisibhidlize. Enye yezinto ezinhle ngohambo lwami ukubona abashayisibhakela besifazane abaningi manje kanye namathuba akhona,” esho.
UTaylor wengeze ngokuthi impi yakhe noSerrano “izovula iminyango eminingi” kwabanye abashayisibhakela besifazane.
Uphromotha kaTaylor, u-Eddie Hearn, ophinde amele u-Anthony Joshua, uthe isibhakela sabesifazane sisahlushwa abagqugquzeli besibhakela sakudala ababona sengathi abesifazane abakwazi ukudayisa izimpi.
“Esikubonile kule minyaka eyisithupha kuya kweyisikhombisa edlule ukukhula okumangalisayo kwesibhakela sabesifazane, sisuka kompetha bomhlaba abaningi baseBrithani, izimpi zabesifazane eziningi ezihamba phambili ngamakhadi ajwayelekile neholo labesifazane likhuphuka ngezinga eliphezulu,” esho.
“Futhi okubaluleke kakhulu, emazingeni aphansi, ukukhula kwamantombazane amancane athi, ‘Ngifuna ukuzibandakanya esibhakeleni’.”
Impi kaKatie Taylor ebhekene no-Amanda Serrano izoba ngomhlaka-30 kuMbasa ngo-2022.
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