Amanda Serrano has one of many deepest resumes within the candy science, however eyes a specific objective that she might doubtlessly obtain this calendar yr. The seven-division world champion returns to the ring this weekend when Serrano clashes with Reina Tellez on Saturday, January third.
Serrano will return to a fervent partisan crowd in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and goals to defend her WBO, WBA, and Ring featherweight titles within the course of. Past that goal to efficiently defend the straps and referring to some extra particular aspirations referenced earlier, Amanda Serrano mentioned [via Ring Magazine],
“[I’m taking it] one battle at a time, however I do have objectives. I would like the file of knockouts. I would like 50 wins, so there are particular objectives. I gotta carry on going.”
The knockout file for girls’s boxers that Serrano desires to eclipse is presently held by acclaimed pugilist Christy Martin. Martin has put collectively an general run of 32 KOs throughout 49 bouts, with Serrano being however one stoppage away from tying the boxing corridor of famer’s file. With Martin not too long ago being portrayed by Hollywood star Sydney Sweeney in a big-screen biopic, Martin clearly has a large profile, and for Serrano to leapfrog somebody like that may be big.
Amanda Serrano “I wish to see girls’s boxing develop”
Amanda Serrano is getting again to preventing at 126 kilos right here after again to again iconic clashes with Katie Taylor at 140 kilos.
After a July setback on factors within the Taylor trilogy, Serrano returns to a passionate partisan crowd for the primary time in 4 years. ‘The Actual Deal’ goals to maintain being a game-changer for girls in boxing as somebody who has stored redefining the paradigm since her skilled debut in 2009.
Expounding upon this continued starvation and specific thought course of, Amanda Serrano said [via Ring Magazine],
“As somebody who helps the game, girls’s boxing and sports activities basically. … At first, girls needed to have a job [and] needed to have a nine-to-five as a result of we weren’t getting paid the way in which we’re getting paid now, and it’s nonetheless not one of the best. Not everyone seems to be getting paid one of the best.”
“I’ve been blessed, however we now have different lives as properly. I wish to see girls’s boxing develop. I would like the ladies to have the ability to focus simply on boxing, simply on the game, on their craft and get what they deserve and get the pay that they deserve.”
