{"id":631641,"date":"2026-06-10T18:36:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T18:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/631641\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T18:36:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T18:36:16","slug":"amanda-serrano-time100-most-influential-people-in-sports-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/631641\/","title":{"rendered":"Amanda Serrano: TIME100 Most Influential People in Sports 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">Born in Puerto Rico and raised in Brooklyn, women\u2019s boxing legend Amanda Serrano followed in the footsteps of her older sister, former featherweight champion Cindy Serrano. Since turning pro in 2009, she has captured nine major world titles across seven weight classes. Serrano\u2019s recent rivalry with Ireland\u2019s Katie Taylor has energized the sport and bolstered Serrano\u2019s reputation despite her losing all three matches. In 2022, the duo squared off in the first women\u2019s boxing match to headline Madison Square Garden. Last year\u2019s bout in the same building drew nearly 6 million viewers on Netflix. Under the terms of a lifetime agreement Serrano signed with YouTube star Jake Paul\u2019s Most Valuable Promotions in 2025, she will become the company\u2019s chairwoman of women\u2019s boxing initiatives when she hangs up her gloves. But the 37-year-old isn\u2019t done yet. After defending her World Boxing Organization and World Boxing Association featherweight titles with a unanimous decision over Reina Tellez in January, Serrano (49-4-1) defeated Cheyenne Hanson on May 30 in El Paso, Texas, tying the record for most knockouts (32) in the history of women\u2019s boxing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Born in Puerto Rico and raised in Brooklyn, women\u2019s boxing legend Amanda Serrano followed in the footsteps of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":631642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,10710,11089,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-631641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-franchise","tag-list","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}