SAN JUAN, PR – Amanda Serrano can be in her fiftieth skilled combat on Saturday evening, however it could simply be an important.
Positive, 50 is a pleasant, spherical quantity for arguably the best ladies’s boxer of all time, however this one has loads of extra which means.
The 35-year-old can be combating in her residence of Puerto Rico on the island’s famed Coliseo towards Nina Meinke – her first combat again residence in virtually three years – however she’ll even be the primary occasion on the 18,500 individual space, which is predicted to promote out.
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Amanda Serrano poses through the weigh-in for her combat towards Nina Meinke for Serrano’s IBF, WBO and WBA featherweight ladies’s titles at Distrito T-Cellular on March 1, 2024, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. They may combat at Coliseo de Puerto Rico on March 2, 2024. (Al Bello/Getty Pictures)
That’s fairly a giant deal typically, however much more so when Jake Paul, whose Most Helpful Promotions signed Serrano in 2021, takes a again seat on a card he’s on himself.
“Jake is such a gentleman. He stated that is my residence, and he would by no means take that important occasion. I am like, ‘No you are able to do it! You are able to do it!’” Serrano instructed Fox Information Digital final month. He is like, ‘There isn’t a method you’re going residence, and you are going to showcase your own home.'”
Added Paul in an interview with Fox Information Digital on Thursday: “It wasn’t even a query” to let her be the primary occasion.
Amanda Serrano (L) and Nina Meinke pose through the weigh in for Serrano’s IBF, WBO and WBA featherweight ladies’s titles at Distrito T-Cellular on March 1, 2024, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. (Al Bello/Getty Pictures)
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However for Serrano, there’s something else value combating for.
“This evening is for us. It’s for ladies. To all the gorgeous, robust ladies on the market, Blissful Ladies’s Month. Right now’s the beginning of it. Tomorrow, we’re gonna present that girls, we’ve got energy, we are able to go on the market, we are able to promote, and we may give all of it. Me and Nina goes to placed on a tremendous present for my island Puerto Rico.”
Serrano has confirmed as such earlier than – she and Katie Taylor had been the primary ladies to headline a boxing match at Madison Sq. Backyard in 2022. Rightfully, that bout was billed “For Historical past.” That was simply one of many two losses she has suffered in her illustrious profession.
Amanda Serrano (L) and Nina Meinke pose through the weigh-in for Serrano’s IBF, WBO and WBA featherweight ladies’s titles at Distrito T-Cellular on March 1, 2024, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. (Al Bello/Getty Pictures)
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Serrano at present holds the WBA, IBF, WBO and IBO titles, all of that are on the road towards Meinke
Her combat again residence in 2021 had an especially restricted crowd, because of COVID-19, and if the surroundings is something prefer it was at Friday evening’s weigh-in, it’s going to be the loudest ovation that Serrano has ever gotten and should ever get.
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