Amanda Serrano is now a WBC united champion and WBO featherweight champion; she will defend those titles next month; Katie Taylor aims to return to the ring in April; the contestants could not agree on a contract to fight last year
Last updated: 05/02/21 4:08 pm
Taylor and Serrano almost locked horns last year
Amanda Serrano is expected to meet Daniela Bermudez on March 25 in Puerto Rico in the world featherweight title fight.
Serrano failed to agree a contract last summer to join Katie Taylor in a battle of multi-world champions but will continue to claim to be the No. 1 female boxer in the world. world.
It has been updated by WBC from their featherweight interim champion to their full champion keeper, as well as wearing a WBO belt.
0:27 Serrano in 2020 said she could beat Taylor ‘at any weight’
Both of those titles will be involved as she fights Bermudez, the IBF pre-bantamweight champion who rules and lifts weight.
Serrano’s update with the WBC comes as Jelena Mrdjenovich, the former champion, was named ‘champion emeritus’ when she was away from the ring due to personal issues.
New York-based Serrano has held world championships in seven weight divisions and has won 39 from 41 fights.
0:56 Serrano almost stopped the heroic Hardy in the first round
She won her featherweight belts in 2019 against former New York coalition Heather Hardy in a major fight for women’s boxing.
She was considered an opponent for Taylor in 2020 but could not strike a deal.
Serrano won her latest fight within a round of December.
Katie Taylor holds all major light belts
Taylor, meanwhile, is the undisputed lightweight champion and is looking to return in April after defending his belts last year, including a rematch against Delfine Persoon .
Natasha Jonas, Jessica McCaskill and Cecilia Braekhus have been suggested as potential foes for Taylor later in 2021.
“She wants challenges, the big fights,” Taylor promoter Eddie Hearn said.
McCaskill, who lost Taylor in 2017 but is now an undoubted welterweight champion, said: “I mastered many of her disadvantages as a boxer. everyone to fight.
“We gave Katie a big fight and almost knocked her out with a left hook.”