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The push is starting to happen. Most fighters have said they'd be open to one -- or both -- of these expansions. And while we predicted a three-토토사이트minute-round women's title fight last year and it didn't happen, some progress has been made. Bea Ferreira, the Olympic silver medalist at lightweight, made 먹튀검증her professional debut in 2022 and fought three-minute rounds.

She's a real contender, and it wouldn't be shocking to 안전놀이터see her push for a title by 2024 -- and maybe three-minute rounds by then. In the meantime, it seems like women's boxing is on the cusp of one of these two https://mtygy.com developments happening.

And it feels like the back half of 2023, potentially with a superfight, might be the way to go. We've seen a fight using three-minute rounds before -- Seniesa Estrada-Marlen Esparza in 2019, a WBA interim flyweight title fight won by Estrada by technical decision. Estrada and Esparza, by the way, could meet again at some point, and perhaps they'd once again agree to it.

The WBC has, for years, been against going to three-minute rounds, while the other sanctioning bodies told ESPN in 2021 they were open to it.

Perhaps the solution for an undisputed fight would be going to 12 rounds instead of 10, adding four minutes of boxing. But with the growth and popularity of the sport, it feels like one of these two breakthroughs should come in 2023. -- Rothstein

Vergil Ortiz finally gets his title shot

Welterweight contender Vergil Ortiz Jr., right, could be finally fighting for a world title in the new year. Kevin Estrada/Getty Images

Ortiz has been knocking on the door of the top welterweights for quite some time. But various setbacks and a logjam at the top of the division have kept Ortiz and fellow contender Jaron "Boots" Ennis waiting for a crack at the champions, Spence and Crawford.

Ortiz should inch closer to that chance at the beginning of the year. Golden Boy Promotions, which promotes Ortiz, won the purse bid for a showdown against Eimantas Stanionis, who holds a secondary WBA belt in the 147-pound division. While Stanionis is very good, Ortiz has the power and the polish to get past that challenge.

That sets up a potential showdown with Spence, the legit WBA champ. If Spence-Crawford doesn't happen by the summer of 2023, the WBA has no reason not to mandate Spence defend his belt against the Stanionis-Ortiz winner. Should that be Ortiz, it sets up an all-Texas showdown between two fighters from the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex.

The other option is that Spence finally moves up to junior middleweight, a move that seems imminent, leaving the belt vacant for Ortiz or someone else.