Nicola Adams Outpoints Isabel Millan to Earn the Interim WBO World Flyweight Championship

From Frank Warren and Queenbury Promotions:

ROUNDS IN THE BANK – THE FRANK WARREN COLUMN
By:Frank Warren

WE CERTAINLY GOT the rounds in up in Leicester on Saturday and, as is often the case, it really was no bad thing.

Properly matched fights tend to go long and that is how it played out at the excellent Morningside Arena, where the fans stuck with the action until well after midnight.

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Nicola Adams is one step closer to her dream of bagging a world title and it is only a matter of time now after the Golden Girl comfortably outboxed Mexico’s Isabel Millan.

The fight was for the WBO Interim world title and I heard a comment made on TV about the validity of these belts and why they are in play. Let me explain the value of Interim titles.

We sought a full title for Nicola against the Mexican Arely Muciño, who we thought was going to be stripped for inactivity but then came up with a defence at the last minute.

The Interim title keeps a division moving and ensures people aren’t just sitting around waiting for something to happen in the event of a champion becoming injured or inactive for whatever reason. Without it a division simply stalls or hits the buffers and the progress of potential challengers can grind to a halt.

Not many contenders would want to give up the No.1 spot so the title gives them the opportunity to fight the next available challenger.

More importantly for me, as someone involved in the business of boxing on behalf of our fighters, holding an Interim title ups the ante when it comes to fighting for a full title. Instead of the purse split being 75-25 or 80-20, it becomes 50-50