Amanda Serrano will face Miriam Gutierrez at lightweight – hoping that Katie Taylor will be next
The long-awaited showdown between two of ladies’s boxing’s pound-for-pound entrants should wait a bit bit longer, however it’s definitely on its method.
In what clearly seems to be like a earlier step earlier than difficult Eire’s Katie Taylor for all of the marbles, Puerto Rico’s Amanda Serrano might be dealing with former Taylor foe Miriam Gutierrez on the Dec. 18 co-feature to the Jake Paul-Tommy Fury “One Will Fall” cruiserweight extravaganza.
The writing is on the wall. And simply in case it wasn’t clear sufficient, Serrano made it all of the clearer.
“Miriam’s solely loss in her profession was a choice to Katie Taylor,” mentioned Serrano, a present 126-pound titlist, in a touch upon Twitter asserting the struggle. “(She) is an especially powerful opponent, together with her solely loss coming to the most effective pound-for-pound fighters on this planet. I’m trying ahead to stepping within the ring together with her and proving why I’m on the prime of ladies’s boxing.”
The thought would then be for Serrano (41-1-1, 30KOs) to attempt to win by stoppage and thus create an added curiosity in what looms as essentially the most anticipated girls’s fights of all time.
Taylor (19-0, 6 KOs) might be showing in Liverpool, England, additionally in December, in what could possibly be her closing bout earlier than taking up Serrano someday within the spring probably in New York’s Madison Sq. Backyard, because it has been rumored insistently.
“December 18th I’m stepping as much as 135 kilos and displaying the world why I’m the most effective to ever do it,” mentioned Serrano, who might be preventing at 135 kilos on this struggle for the primary time in a number of years, in a profession wherein she has surfed between weight courses repeatedly, racking up half a dozen title belts alongside the best way in several divisions.
Towards Spain’s Gutierrez (14-1, 6KOs), she might be up towards a fighter with restricted expertise and expertise however with limitless toughness. A former sufferer of home violence who nearly suffered a miscarriage after taking a brutal beating from her partner, Gutierrez began boxing as a solution to defend herself and has embarked in a number of campaigns to share her expertise with different girls in varied self-empowering missions. She is concerned in politics and is a council particular person in her hometown of Torrejón de Ardoz, except for being a columnist within the “Sports activities vs Violence” TV present, amongst different civil service endeavors.
“Amanda Serrano is an icon within the sport and once I step into that ring on December 18, will probably be a pivotal second in my profession. I respect what she does, but it surely’s a danger coming as much as 135. I’ve been competing at this stage for many of my profession and the competitors is hard,” mentioned Gutiérrez. “I’m grateful to my crew, my household and my promoter Ray Occasions Boxing for his or her help as I prepare for an evening of pure boxing leisure. I look ahead to bringing an incredible victory again to Spain.”
Quotes and different materials from a Showtime Boxing press launch was used on this article
