Skye Nicolson and Raven Chapman contest the first women's world title fight to be held in Saudi Arabia on Saturday in another key sign of the Kingdom's growing influence on boxing.
Saudi Arabia has played host to some of the biggest boxing events over the past 12 months, and on Saturday – for the first time – the Kingdom will host a women's world title fight.
However, female boxers have not featured on seven 'Riyadh Season' cards - five held in Saudi, one in Los Angeles and one in London.Nicolson, who will earn a career-high pay day, says she is excited to be "a part of this women's movement" in Saudi.Hearn says this is the first time he and other promoters have put forward a women's fight to the Saudi organisers, who are led by Turki Alalshikh, the chairman of Saudi Arabia's general entertainment authority.
While Saudi has made significant social reforms in recent years - in 2018 it changed the law to allow women to drive and to attend football matches – critics says its investment in boxing is to deflect attention from controversy over its human rights record, a practice known as In 2019, Rasha Al Khamis became the Saudi's first certified female boxing coach, and she is now vice-president of the Saudi Boxing Federation, tasked with leading the charge to raise a generation of female boxers in the region.
Yet this is reflective of female boxing as a whole. In the United Kingdom, the majority of world-title female fights are not guaranteed main event status.
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