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Thursday, July 24, 2025

WBA supervisor Inalsingh: Historic bout transcended male or female boxing

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Sports Desk
1178 days ago
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WBA director Shivana Inalsingh, left, with Katie Taylor at her title fight in Liverpool last December.

WBA director Shivana Inalsingh, left, with Katie Taylor at her title fight in Liverpool last December.

The his­toric box­ing ti­tle fight be­tween the Irish Katie Tay­lor and Puer­to Ri­can Aman­da Ser­ra­no more than de­liv­ered the punch its billing promised, ac­cord­ing to its World Box­ing As­so­ci­a­tion (WBA) su­per­vi­sor, Trinida­di­an Shiv­ana In­als­ingh.

Tay­lor re­tained her light weight ti­tle be­fore a sold out crowd at the icon­ic Madi­son Square Gar­dens venue, with a 97-93,96-93 94-96 split de­ci­sion over 10 rounds.

The WBA fight su­per­vi­sor, who has su­per­vised more than 50 ti­tle fights around the world, re­marked the bout tran­scend­ed men’s or women’s box­ing.

She said: “This was an in­cred­i­ble ex­pe­ri­ence. I have nev­er at­tend­ed a box­ing event with this lev­el of en­er­gy and sup­port for fe­male box­ing. Tay­lor and Ser­ra­no de­liv­ered.

“I sat there at ring­side and looked at those girls in the ring and got very emo­tion­al be­cause what I saw tran­scend­ed ‘male or fe­male’ box­ing - for a few sec­onds I had a flash of look­ing at Muham­mad Ali and Joe Fra­zier at the Gar­dens - yes it was that good. World-class box­ing at its best.”

In­als­ingh, a WBA di­rec­tor, is al­so a di­rec­tor on the Fe­male Cham­pi­onship Com­mit­tee and was one of on­ly two fe­male of­fi­cials list­ed from the sanc­tion­ing bod­ies for this main event, which sold out the box­ing mec­ca, with a 19,187 strong crowd in New York City.

She added: “I was so hap­py to see the turn out of sup­port by oth­er trail­blaz­ers in fe­male box­ing- Christy Mar­tin, Laila Ali, ‘First La­dy’ Ce­cil­ia Braekhus and Cla­res­sa Shields among a long list at ring­side.”

The box­ing of­fi­cial is al­so a di­rec­tor on the Com­mon­wealth Box­ing Coun­cil where she is re­spon­si­ble for sup­port­ing women’s box­ing.

The mil­lion dol­lar purse was the high­est pay-out for women’s box­ers in the sport’s his­to­ry.


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