i have probably been lucky enough to have had fighting more female fighters than most gyms to name a few.
becky donnelly, nicky carter,lucy hunking, bernise alldis, Joh Tandy, stevie alldis, jackie, rhianna nash and now have 3 orr 4 more promising junior girls coming thru. Bernise is fighting for a second world title soon and becky has the WPKL version and Nicky the wbc version.
Reality.... for the most part, pound for pound men are weaker than women. This is both physiologically and historically true. However, in my gym we all train together and i expect the amount of control afforded to a female fighter to be the same as any body else of less experience, lower weight or unequal skill/strength. I enjoy training any of them the same as men and we have no problem with the training co ed situation. they go through the same. If i matched 10 males and 10 females of similar age, fight stats and weight then sadly the chances are that the ten women would lose. That means nothing to me as i see that situation as unfair. In all sports mens and womens divisons are for the most part separate because of the strength and speed differences. I dont see how this in anyway stops them training the same, sparring under the same controlled conditions the same or any other part of the training.

Bernise,Nicky and becky would get the advantage of many of the men they spar with but i wouldnt like to match them against world class men of the same weight and experience. I have no doubt that i could find male fighter they can beat but wouldnt match them like for like. This isnt because they are women it is because my duty, like it is to any other fighter is to match them accordingly. For me to do anything else wouldnt be doing that! Lucias fight prooves that. Germaine is a long time favourite of mine but i wouldnt like to see her fight a 63.5kg fighter of world class from the mens divsion top of the world. That being the case it would already have happened.

'Women are equally as good in their fight careers as men are in theirs. I feel no need to present any argument to that nor match them togther to fight. training is a separate issue. They are not 'fighting' then!