{"id":217219,"date":"2026-01-02T21:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T21:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/217219\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T21:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T21:25:08","slug":"amanda-serrano-still-defending-titles-as-tellez-misses-weight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/217219\/","title":{"rendered":"Amanda Serrano still defending titles as Tellez misses weight"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Brett OkamotoJan 2, 2026, 03:17 PM ET<\/p>\n

Close<\/a>Brett Okamoto has reported on mixed martial arts and boxing at ESPN since 2010. He has covered all of the biggest events in combat sports during that time, including in-depth interviews and features with names such as Dana White, Khabib Nurmagomedov, Conor McGregor, Nate Diaz, Floyd Mayweather, Manny Pacquiao and Georges St-Pierre. He was also a producer on the 30 for 30 film: “Chuck and Tito,” which looked back at the careers and rivalry of Chuck Liddell and Tito Ortiz. He lives in Las Vegas, and is an avid, below-average golfer in his spare time.<\/p>\n

Unified featherweight champion Amanda Serrano will still look to defend her WBO and WBA titles this weekend, despite her opponent missing weight Friday.<\/p>\n

Serrano (47-4-1, 31 KOs) weighed in at 126 pounds for her first unified title defense in more than two years. Her opponent, Reina Tellez (13-0-1, 5 KOs), weighed 126.6 — 0.6 pounds over the limit — and will not be eligible to win either of Serrano’s belts.<\/p>\n

Tellez, 22, stepped into Saturday’s bout on short notice, after Serrano’s initial opponent, Erika Cruz, produced an atypical finding last month.<\/p>\n

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Serrano is coming off back-to-back appearances at super lightweight against Katie Taylor. She went 0-3 all time against Taylor, dropping a split decision in April 2022, a unanimous decision in November 2024 and a majority decision in July. Serrano is looking to tie Christy Martin’s record of 32 career knockouts.<\/p>\n

The 10-round bout will take place in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and air on DAZN. Saturday’s contest will consist of three-minute rounds, unlike the traditional two-minute rounds for women’s boxing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brett OkamotoJan 2, 2026, 03:17 PM ET CloseBrett Okamoto has reported on mixed martial arts and boxing at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-217219","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}