SAN JUAN, PR – Amanda Serrano will play her 50th professional fight on Saturday night, and it might be her most important fight yet.
Sure, 50 is a nice, ballpark number for perhaps the greatest female boxer of all time, but there’s a lot more to this number.
The 35-year-old will fight Nina Meinke in her hometown of Puerto Rico at the island’s famous Coliseo (her first fight on her home soil in almost three years), but she won’t be able to compete in the main event in an area of 18,500 spectators. It’s also an event. We expect it to sell out.
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Serrano poses during the weigh-in for her IBF, WBO and WBA women’s featherweight titles against Nina Meinke at Distrito T-Mobile on March 1, 2024 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Amanda Serrano. They will fight on March 2, 2024 at Coliseo de Puerto Rico. (Albero/Getty Images)
That’s a pretty big deal in general, but even more so when Jake Paul, who signed Serrano to a Most Valuable Promotions deal in 2021, puts his own card on the back burner.
“Jake is such a gentleman. He says this is my home and he’s never going to be in the main event. I’m like, ‘No, you can do it! You can do it!'” Serrano said. told FOX News Digital last month. He was like, ‘There’s no way I’m going home, I’m going to show off my house.’ ”
Paul added in an interview with FOX News Digital on Thursday that “there wasn’t even a question” about making her the main event.
Amanda Serrano (left) and Nina Meinke pose during the weigh-in for Serrano’s IBF, WBO and WBA women’s featherweight titles at Distrito T-Mobile on March 1, 2024 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. (Albero/Getty Images)
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But for Serrano, there are other things worth fighting for.
“Tonight is for us. It’s for women. To all the beautiful, strong women out there, Happy Women’s Month. Today is the beginning. Tomorrow, we’re going to show women that they too are strong and can go out.” “We’re going to prove it. We can sell and we can give it our all. Me and Nina are going to put on a great show for my island, Puerto Rico.”
Serrano has proven that before, as she and Katie Taylor were the first women to headline a boxing match at Madison Square Garden in 2022. Naturally, the match was labeled as “historic.” This was just one of two losses she suffered in her illustrious career.
Amanda Serrano (left) and Nina Meinke pose during the weigh-in for Serrano’s IBF, WBO and WBA women’s featherweight titles at Distrito T-Mobile on March 1, 2024 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. (Albero/Getty Images)
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Serrano currently holds the WBA, IBF, WBO and IBO titles, all of which are up for a fight with Meinke.
Her fight in her home country in 2021 will have a very limited audience due to COVID-19, and if conditions were similar to those at Friday night’s weigh-in, Serrano would This will be the loudest applause you have ever had and may ever get. .
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