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SAN JUAN, PR – Amanda Serrano can be in her fiftieth skilled battle on Saturday night time, however it might simply be crucial.
Positive, 50 is a pleasant, spherical quantity for arguably the best girls’s boxer of all time, however this one has loads of extra which means.
The 35-year-old can be preventing in her dwelling of Puerto Rico on the island’s famed Coliseo towards Nina Meinke – her first battle again dwelling in nearly three years – however she’ll even be the primary occasion on the 18,500 particular person space, which is anticipated to promote out.
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Amanda Serrano poses throughout the weigh-in for her battle towards Nina Meinke for Serrano’s IBF, WBO and WBA featherweight girls’s titles at Distrito T-Cell on March 1, 2024, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. They may battle at Coliseo de Puerto Rico on March 2, 2024. (Al Bello/Getty Photos)
That’s fairly an enormous deal generally, however much more so when Jake Paul, whose Most Worthwhile 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 dwelling, and he would by no means take that fundamental occasion. I am like, ‘No you are able to do it! You are able to do it!’” Serrano advised Fox Information Digital final month. He is like, ‘There isn’t a means you’re going dwelling, and you are going to showcase your private 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 throughout the weigh in for Serrano’s IBF, WBO and WBA featherweight girls’s titles at Distrito T-Cell on March 1, 2024, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. (Al Bello/Getty Photos)
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However for Serrano, there’s something else price preventing for.
“This night time is for us. It’s for girls. To all the gorgeous, robust girls on the market, Joyful Girls’s Month. Right this moment’s the beginning of it. Tomorrow, we’re gonna present that girls, we’ve energy, we are able to go on the market, we are able to promote, and we can provide 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 girls 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 throughout the weigh-in for Serrano’s IBF, WBO and WBA featherweight girls’s titles at Distrito T-Cell on March 1, 2024, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. (Al Bello/Getty Photos)
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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 battle again dwelling in 2021 had a particularly restricted crowd, due to COVID-19, and if the atmosphere is something prefer it was at Friday night time’s weigh-in, it’s going to be the loudest ovation that Serrano has ever gotten and will ever get.
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