Amanda Serrano to retire after featherweight title defence against Skye Falzon in San Juan

Amanda Serrano will retire after her next fight. She will defend her unified WBA and WBO featherweight world titles against Australia's Skye Falzon on 9 January at the Coliseo de Puerto Rico in San Juan. The bout is billed as "The Last Walk" and will be the final fight of her professional career.

Serrano is 38. She is a world champion in seven weight divisions. Her professional record is 50 wins, four defeats and one draw. She is the only Puerto Rican boxer to become an undisputed world champion. Falzon has 12 wins and two defeats, with seven wins by knockout.

The fight gives Serrano a chance to break the all-time women's knockout record associated with American Christy Martin. According to Al Jazeera, Serrano has 32 knockouts, level with Martin. BBC Sport reported that Serrano did not get the knockout she needed to pass Martin in her previous fight. In that fight, she beat Argentina's Lucrecia Manzur by majority decision. BBC Sport said it was the first world title fight broadcast live on TikTok and drew 3.4m views. BBC Sport also reported that the farewell bout will be 12 three-minute rounds.

In 2022, Serrano and Ireland's Katie Taylor became the first women to headline a boxing event at New York's Madison Square Garden. Taylor won all three fights of their trilogy, the last in 2025. According to BBC Sport, Taylor retired in September after beating Flora Pili at Dublin's Croke Park.

According to Al Jazeera, Serrano later vacated her WBC title rather than give up her commitment to equal rules for women and men.

Serrano's promoter is Most Valuable Promotions (MVP), founded by Jake Paul and Nakisa Bidarian. BBC Sport reported that Serrano was MVP's first signing, in 2021. Both Al Jazeera and BBC Sport appear to rely on the same promoter announcement for the core story.

What is disputed

Falzon's age differs between reports. Al Jazeera says she is 38. BBC Sport says she is 37.

What each side says

In a statement quoted by Al Jazeera, Serrano said: "Boxing has been my life and I never could have imagined the journey it would take me and my family on." BBC Sport quoted her as saying: "To close my career at home in Puerto Rico, in front of the people who have supported me from the beginning, means everything." She also said: "We've fought for respect, equal opportunities, fair pay, and the choice to compete under the same rules as men."

In a statement quoted by Al Jazeera, Paul and Bidarian said the event "is a celebration of an athlete who changed the sport forever". According to BBC Sport, they called her "the most accomplished female boxer of all time, the most watched, the most paid".

The reports reviewed by Vocemundi do not include any comment from Falzon or her team. They also do not include statements from the WBA or WBO.

Analysis

Serrano's exit comes shortly after Taylor's reported retirement. Together, the two departures remove the two fighters who headlined women's boxing's most prominent events. How promoters and governing bodies fill that space remains open. The knockout record adds a sporting stake: a stoppage win would give Serrano the mark outright, while a points win or a loss would not. The reports do not say what happens to her titles after the bout. Readers should note that the core story rests largely on a single promoter announcement. No independent voices, including Falzon's camp, appear in the reports.

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