Amanda Serrano Ends Her Career Against Skye Falzon in Puerto Rico
Amanda Serrano will step into the ring for the last time as a professional on 9 January, when she faces Australia's Skye Falzon in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The bout, labelled The Last Walk, is her farewell fight.
The contest takes place at the Coliseo de Puerto Rico, where Serrano will defend her WBA and WBO featherweight titles. Featherweight is one of the boxing weight classes, the divisions that group fighters by body weight. The WBA and WBO are two of the four major sanctioning bodies, the organisations that certify world champions and rank challengers.
Serrano has won world titles at seven different weights, which makes her a seven-weight world champion. She turned professional in 2009. BBC Sport reports that her professional record now stands at 50 wins, four defeats and one draw. Her 50th win came by majority decision over Argentina's Lucrecia Manzur, meaning most of the three judges' scorecards favoured her.
Falzon is 37 and has won 12 of her 14 professional fights. Seven of those wins came by knockout, when an opponent is unable to continue after being hit. Falzon arrives as a fighter with real power, and Serrano will be fighting her in the final bout of a long career.
The farewell is also a chance at a record. Christy Martin holds the women's knockout record with 32, and Serrano is aiming to surpass that mark before she retires. A knockout would be her route to it, and the fight will be contested over 12 three-minute rounds, the standard distance for a championship bout.
Serrano is also the only Puerto Rican boxer, male or female, to become an undisputed world champion. Undisputed means holding all of the major belts in a single weight class at once. That achievement sits alongside her seven weight-class titles and gives her a unique place in the island's boxing history.
Her move to Most Valuable Promotions, the company co-founded by Jake Paul and Nakisa Bidarian, also marked a shift in the sport. She became the first fighter to sign with the promotion in 2021. Promoters are the businesses that arrange fights and sell tickets and broadcasts, so signing with one shapes which opponents and dates a fighter can get.
Serrano has spoken before about wanting to end her career at home. In earlier comments reported by ESPN, she said she would one day have her retirement fight in Puerto Rico, and she has previously spoken about planning a home there after boxing. The Coliseo date makes that plan concrete.
For casual fans, the appeal is simple. This is a fighter with a long, decorated career, a clear goal in the record books, and a chance to say goodbye in front of her own people. Whatever happens on the night, it will close one of the most decorated careers in women's boxing.
