WHILE it is easy for some to pander or distract with hyperbole, the popularity of women’s boxing was always going to be decided by headline fights rather than the histrionics of the men who make money from them. Forget the noise, and forget the success stories of one or two, what matters in the end are the mid-level fights and whether these – fights good but not spectacular – have a regular headline slot on shows in Great Britain going forward. Fights like Natasha Jonas vs. Mikaela Mayer, for example, which takes place this Saturday (January 20) in Liverpool.
That fight, for Jonas’ IBF welterweight title, is
