Amanda Serrano successfully defended her WBA and WBO featherweight titles, beating a game Reina Tellez by unanimous decision over 10, three-minute rounds, in front of a lively crowd in San Juan, Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n
Serrano (48-4-1, 31 KO) was chasing Christy Martin\u2019s KO mark of 32, but didn\u2019t quite get there, though she did press hard in the final round, and the fans tried willing her on to do it with great support.<\/p>\n
Late-notice opponent Tellez (13-1-1, 5 KO) deserves real credit for taking good shots from the far more proven and experienced Serrano, who was a heavy favorite coming in, and also landing plenty of shots of her own. The underdog never gave up on this fight, but she was cleanly and fairly beaten.<\/p>\n
Serrano vs Tellez scorecards<\/p>\n
Speaking of fair, the judges officially scored the bout 97-93, 97-93, and 98-92 for Serrano, all of them good scores that didn\u2019t showcase any of the sleepwalking we often see from judges in a matchup like this. Tellez had her successes in the fight, and the cards reflected that.<\/p>\n
Bad Left Hook unofficially scored it 98-92 for Serrano.<\/p>\n
What Amanda Serrano said after the fight<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m super thankful and grateful to Reina for coming on short notice, and coming and fighting. She\u2019s a warrior. I told her (just) now, after the fight, don\u2019t worry, she will be fighting for MVP again. We\u2019re gonna give her another couple opportunities because she proved tonight she\u2019s a warrior. She fought like an undefeated fighter tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt feels good to be back at 126, at featherweight. I feel good, I feel I gave the fans a show. \u2026 I\u2019m super happy I was able to fulfill another dream of fighting here once again for my people.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of new girls, new champions at featherweight, that\u2019s nice to see. Maybe one day we can all get together and just fight each other.\u201d<\/p>\n
What Reina Tellez said after the fight<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d never been 10 rounds, let alone three minute (rounds), and I just did that with one of the best in the world, somebody I\u2019ve idolized my whole life. I stood in there and I fought to the end. Whatever anybody had to say about me, good or bad, I stayed focused, and I showed them tonight what\u2019s up.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI was too much in my head about getting caught, but it\u2019s a learning experience. I took it all in.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amanda Serrano successfully defended her WBA and WBO featherweight titles, beating a game Reina Tellez by unanimous decision…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,1147,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-387593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-results","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}