{"id":413867,"date":"2026-01-15T04:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T04:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/413867\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T04:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T04:44:08","slug":"boxing-legend-amanda-serrano-offers-to-fight-amanda-nunes-at-ufc-324-despite-three-fight-mma-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/413867\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing legend Amanda Serrano offers to fight Amanda Nunes at UFC 324 despite three-fight MMA career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A surprising name has entered the mix to fight Amanda Nunes: Jake Paul\u2019s superstar teammate and longtime boxing champ Amanda Serrano.<\/p>\n<p>UFC 324 suffered a big blow just under two weeks before the event as UFC women\u2019s bantamweight champion Kayla Harrison <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/amanda-nunes\/ufc-324-suffers-huge-blow-loses-kayla-harrison-vs-amanda-nunes-fight\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was forced to withdraw from her fight<\/a> with Amanda Nunes due to injury.<\/p>\n<p>Harrison, who won the UFC women\u2019s bantamweight championship at UFC 316, suffered a neck injury in camp and will undergo surgery soon. She\u2019s expected to miss around six months before being medically cleared to compete.<\/p>\n<p>As of this writing, it\u2019s uncertain whether or not Nunes will remain on the card or will remain on the sidelines amidst Harrison\u2019s absence. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/kayla-harrison\/top-bantamweight-offers-to-fill-for-kayla-harrison-against-amanda-nunes-at-ufc-324\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Top contender Norma Dumont<\/a> recently called her out for a short-notice booking at UFC 324.<\/p>\n<p>But another top name, boxing world champion Amanda Serrano, wants to resume her three-fight MMA career on short-notice against the greatest of all-time.<\/p>\n<p>Amanda Serrano sends message to Amanda Nunes, UFC ahead of UFC 324<\/p>\n<p>In a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Serranosisters\/status\/2011598917113430437?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">tweet<\/a>, Serrano sent a message to Nunes and the UFC brass ahead of UFC 324.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf UFC and Amanda Nunes are thinking of a replacement, I would love the challenge as I\u2019m still in fight shape,\u201d Serrano posted Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHope the champ recovers well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Serrano made her professional MMA debut in April 2018, fighting to a draw against Corina Herrera. She went on to pick up back-to-back submission victories in 2018 and 2021, and hasn\u2019t fought in the cage since iKON FC 7.<\/p>\n<p>Serrano is regarded as one of the greatest female boxers in the sport\u2019s history, most recently defeating Reina Tellez on January 3rd to retain her featherweight titles. The win snapped a two-fight losing streak to Katie Taylor.<\/p>\n<p>As of this writing, the UFC\u2019s plans for Nunes are uncertain, as is a potential Serrano signing. In the meantime, hats off to Serrano for expressing willingness to face the best under the roughest circumstances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A surprising name has entered the mix to fight Amanda Nunes: Jake Paul\u2019s superstar teammate and longtime boxing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[30389,11161,64,63,802,785,85,787,133987],"class_list":["post-413867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-amanda-nunes","tag-amanda-serrano","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-324"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}