Amanda Serrano’s title protection in opposition to Nina Meinke on Saturday in her residence nation of Puerto Rico was canceled on the final second as a result of the champion has an eye fixed damage.
Jake Paul, her promoter, mentioned she has an “uncovered cornea,” which suggests it’s broken. Neither he nor Serrano mentioned how or when she suffered the damage.
A tearful Serrano, who cherished the chance to struggle in entrance of her followers, was clearly devastated as she and Meinke stood within the ring in San Juan for the beautiful announcement.
She mentioned she was prepared to do battle regardless of the damage however medical doctors nixed the struggle after she failed an eye fixed examination.
“I’m so sorry. I got here to struggle, I got here to placed on a present for you guys,” she mentioned as some within the crowd booed. “One factor I’ll let you know, I will probably be again. That is the place I’ll retire. … I’m sorry from the underside of my coronary heart.”
She mentioned she might barely see out of her eye.
“I used to be prepared to go on the market and nonetheless give the followers a present however they only wouldn’t enable me to,” she mentioned.
Paul, who knocked out opponent Ryan Bourland within the first spherical moments earlier, mentioned the struggle will probably be rescheduled.
“She’s going to push by means of this, heal the attention,” mentioned Paul, who had his arm round Serrano to consolation her. “And we’re going to return again as quickly as we will and re-run it. Nina desires that, Amanda desires that.
“This occurred 36 hours in the past. We did all the things we might to maintain the struggle on but it surely wasn’t being accepted by the commissions.”
Serrano (46-2-1, 30 KOs) would have fought in her native nation for the primary time since 2021. Meinke (18-3, 4 KOs) hoped to win her first world title.
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