WBC Aiming To Create Clean Boxing Program For Women’s Boxing
Two years after the WBC created the Clean Boxing Program in an effort to clean up the sport, the governing body is making plans to do the same for women’s boxing.
According to Boxing Scene, the plan is for the program to be perfected on the men’s side before implementing it on their female counterpart. Alberto Leon, the vice president of the WBC, said there are still several steps the program needs to take before the WBC creates the program for women.
“An anti-doping program is complicated. The idea is to perfect this program as much as possible before starting the women’s version. I think the idea is to build as we do with the current program, a solid platform and this will have to happen at the right moment,” Leon said, who confirms there had been talks with WBC President Mauricio Sulaiman to make a women’s program possible.
The Clean Boxing Program is a special partnership formed between the WBC and Voluntary Anti-Doping Association VADA in order to make sure the sport of boxing is as clean and drug-free as possible.
The current WBC’s Clean Boxing Program requires fighters to be ranked in the top 15 of their rankings to sign up for the program. As such, fighters such as Manny Pacquiao, David Haye, Jarrell Miller, Errol Spence Jr., Lamont Peterson, Liam Smith and many more are not ranked in the WBC’s top 15 for not being in the Clean Boxing Program. The governing body recently released an extensive list of boxers not enrolled in the Clean Boxing Program, which can be seen at this link.
