Amanda Serrano has one of many deepest resumes within the candy science, however eyes a selected objective that she may probably obtain this calendar 12 months. 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 intention 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 targets. I would like the file of knockouts. I would like 50 wins, so there are specific targets. I gotta carry on going.”
The knockout file for ladies’s boxers that Serrano needs 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 an enormous profile, and for Serrano to leapfrog somebody like that will be enormous.
Amanda Serrano “I wish to see ladies’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 women in boxing as somebody who has saved redefining the paradigm since her skilled debut in 2009.
Expounding upon this continued starvation and explicit thought course of, Amanda Serrano acknowledged [via Ring Magazine],
“As somebody who helps the game, ladies’s boxing and sports activities usually. … To start with, ladies 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 the most effective. Not everyone seems to be getting paid the most effective.”
“I’ve been blessed, however now we have different lives as nicely. I wish to see ladies’s boxing develop. I need 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.”
