Oct 28 (Reuters) – Puerto Rico’s seven-division \u2060world champion Amanda Serrano will retire after defending her unified featherweight world titles \u2060against Australia’s Skye Falzon on home soil, in a fight her promoter dubbed “The \u200cLast Walk”.<\/p>\n
Most Valuable Promotions said Serrano, who holds a 50\u20134\u20131 record with 32 knockouts, will defend her unified WBO and WBA featherweight world titles on January 9 at Coliseo de Puerto Rico in San Juan.<\/p>\n
Puerto Rico’s \u200bonly undisputed boxing champion is also gunning for the \u2060all-time women’s knockout record which the \u206038-year-old jointly shares with American Christy Martin.<\/p>\n
“Boxing has been my life and I never could \u2060have \u200cimagined the journey it would take me and my family on,” Serrano said in a statement.<\/p>\n
“From the early days when women’s boxing was fighting for recognition in \u2060small theatre shows, to headlining Madison Square Garden in New \u200bYork, reaching millions of \u200cfans around the world on the biggest shows, and helping open doors for \u2060the next generation \u200bof female fighters… I always believed and I’m proud of everything we’ve accomplished.”<\/p>\n
Serrano made history alongside Ireland’s Katie Taylor in 2022 when they became the first women boxers to headline New York’s Madison \u2060Square Garden.<\/p>\n
The highest-profile rivalry in women’s boxing produced a \u200btrilogy of fights which Taylor swept via a majority decision in 2025.<\/p>\n
A Guinness World Record holder for winning titles across seven weight divisions, Serrano also became a leading voice for equality \u2060in women’s boxing.<\/p>\n
In 2023, she competed in the first women’s unified world championship bout over 12 three-minute rounds, later voluntarily vacating her WBC title rather than abandon her commitment to equal rules.<\/p>\n
“‘The Last Walk’ is a celebration of an athlete who changed the sport \u200bforever… We’re proud to give Amanda the farewell she deserves,” \u2060said Nakisa Bidarian and Jake Paul, founders of Most Valuable Promotions.<\/p>\n
“Saturday, January 9, will mark the \u200bend of an extraordinary career inside the ring, but \u200cAmanda’s legacy will live on through every female \u200bfighter who follows in her footsteps.”<\/p>\n
Falzon, who is also 38, holds a 12-2 record with seven knockouts.<\/p>\n
(Reporting by Rohith Nair in Bengaluru, editing by Ed Osmond)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oct 28 (Reuters) – Puerto Rico’s seven-division \u2060world champion Amanda Serrano will retire after defending her unified featherweight…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":943943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,6675,85],"class_list":["post-943942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-na","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943942","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=943942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/943943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}