{"id":316347,"date":"2026-05-31T08:54:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T08:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/316347\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T08:54:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T08:54:41","slug":"han-vs-holm-2-ends-in-controversy-serrano-ties-martins-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/316347\/","title":{"rendered":"Han vs Holm 2 ends in controversy, Serrano ties Martin\u2019s record"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stephanie Han retained her WBA lightweight title with a majority decision win over Holly Holm tonight in Han\u2019s hometown of El Paso, Texas, but the rematch victory will come with quite a bit of controversy.<\/p>\n

Han (13-0, 3 KO) retained on majority decision scores, with two judges scoring the fight for her, both at 96-94. The third judge had it even, 95-95.<\/p>\n

Many observes felt the 44-year-old Holm (34-4-3, 9 KO) had done enough to win this time around, after losing a technical decision to Han in January.<\/p>\n

Holm, of course, felt she deserved the win, as did ESPN analyst and fellow champion Mikaela Mayer.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love Stephanie Han, I think she\u2019s an awesome champion, I think she\u2019s a great person. But I have to be honest and I do think that Holly Holm had a much stronger fight,\u201d Mayer said.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe made more adjustments, she pushed it when she had to, she kicked it into that second and third gear in moments throughout the 10 rounds. That\u2019s really important in a championship fight. If I were her, I would be disappointed, too, with the decision. I would be expecting to get my hand raised.\u201d<\/p>\n

Han said it had been \u201can honor\u201d to share the ring with Holm, who had no reaction.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wasn\u2019t surprised how she brought the fight to me, because I knew that she was prepared for this fight,\u201d Han said. \u201cYou should not be disappointed. You\u2019re a legend. One of the best fighters I\u2019ve ever fought. Amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Holm continued to show no reaction and wouldn\u2019t even look over to Han, who then called out Katie Taylor for a potential fight, hoping to get \u201crevenge\u201d for Taylor beating Han\u2019s sister, Jennifer. She said she would be willing to go to Ireland for the fight.<\/p>\n

\u2018I definitely did more in the fight\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cHonestly, I feel like I won that fight,\u201d Holm said. \u201cThere\u2019s always things, even in a win, that I want to do better always. We always want perfection. But I really feel I won the fight, so \u2014 and that\u2019s not any disrespect to Han at all. I have a lot of respect for her, it had nothing to do with that, I just felt that fight was mine.\u201d<\/p>\n

Holm was asked if she wanted to keep fighting at age 44, and said, \u201cI want to keep fighting if it\u2019s fair, kind of. It\u2019s still a little disheartening sometimes when you put a lot of work in. I have dreams in this sport and everything, and it\u2019s just kind of frustrating sometimes. I just felt like I was dictating the pace, I felt like I was landing clean shots. It\u2019s a fight, I\u2019m not saying that she never hit me, but I definitely did more in the fight and I should have had the win.\u201d<\/p>\n

Amanda Serrano ties Christy Martin\u2019s record<\/p>\n

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Amanda Serrano also fought on the card, easily retaining her WBA and WBO featherweight titles with a quick second round stoppage of over-matched Cheyenne Hanson.<\/p>\n

The win was the 32nd stoppage victory of Serrano\u2019s 17-year career, tying the record set by Christy Martin between 1989 and 2012 for most stoppage victories in women\u2019s boxing history.<\/p>\n

Martin retired with a record of 49-7-3 (32 KO), while Serrano now stands at 49-4-1 (32 KO).<\/p>\n

Serrano\u2019s post-fight speech lasted substantially longer than the fight with Hanson (17-3, 13 KO), who was really jumping from club level boxing into the elite tier, and it was clear quickly that she was well out of her depth.<\/p>\n

Part of that post-fight speech segued to promoter Jake Paul, who was booed in El Paso because he is Jake Paul, Professionally Unlikable Person. MVP partner Nakisa Bidarian then had a fit on the microphone, yelling at the fans and saying the card wouldn\u2019t even have happened without Paul. That\u2019s true, really, as Paul and MVP are genuinely good promoters who have put most of their stock into women\u2019s boxing, but it should be said that Paul himself didn\u2019t seem to make much note of the situation at all, because he has built several careers and his fortune on being someone a lot of people don\u2019t like and knows the game he\u2019s playing.<\/p>\n

Desley Robinson, Lourdes Juarez retain titles<\/p>\n

The night\u2019s other two world title fights also saw champions retain.<\/p>\n

Desley Robinson kept her IBF and WBO middleweight titles with a one-sided rout of Mary Spencer, taking scores of 99-91, 100-90, and 100-90.<\/p>\n

Lourdes Juarez retained the WBC light flyweight title with a win over minimumweight champ Yokasta Valle. Lourdes won by split decision, with two cards going her way, 95-94 and 98-91, and Valle taking the third, 95-94. General sentiment from observers was that Juarez deserved the win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stephanie Han retained her WBA lightweight title with a majority decision win over Holly Holm tonight in Han\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[113642,113643,138,140,139],"class_list":["post-316347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxing-results","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}