The WBC's transgender boxing division is another money grab, writes ZacharyFaria
WBC President Mauricio Sulaiman correctly decided that “in boxing, a man fighting a woman must never be accepted regardless of gender change.” Instead of allowing men to fight in women’s divisions, the WBC has decided to create a transgender division, where men claiming to be women can fight men claiming to be women or women claiming to be men. This will allow whatever few transgender boxers exist to fight without jeopardizing the safety of female boxers.
The second reason for this is money. Boxing sanctioning bodies that provide championship belts are leeches that draw money from the purses of their champion fighters. If you want to win a WBC belt, for example, you must pay money from each of your fights to count toward your WBC ranking, and your promoter must pay an annual fee.
Of course, the WBC then decided to add more champions, so it could take its cut of money from even more boxers. The body has multiple champions in multiple weight divisions. The WBC created a brand new division, the “bridgerweight” division, so it could crown more champions and extract more money from more boxers. .
The WBC even created a “franchise” championship, which transcended weight divisions and was not necessarily a belt that could be won by an opponent. It then awarded this “championship” to some of boxing’s biggest stars, ensuring that the body could take a cut of their purse in perpetuity, regardless of the division they were fighting in.
This transgender division accomplishes the same thing. Undoubtedly, the WBC will give out a championship belt , allowing it to skim even more money off of even more boxers competing to call themselves champions. Combine that with the morbid promotion of transgenderism among establishment media, this is primarily a money grab disguised as inclusion. In other words, it’s just another day in the sport of boxing.
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