Amanda Serrano vs. Erika Cruz highlights a giant night time for girls’s boxing Saturday night time in New York Metropolis on DAZN.
AMANDA SERRANO (43-2-1, 30 KOS) VS. ERIKA CRUZ (15-1, 3 KOS)
Date: Saturday, Feb. 4
Time: 8 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. PT (predominant occasion later in present)
The place: Hulu Theater at Madison Sq. Backyard, New York
TV/Stream: DAZN
Division: Featherweight (126 kilos)
At stake: Serrano’s IBF, WBC, WBO and Cruz’s WBA titles
Odds: Serrano 5-1 favourite (common of a number of retailers)
Additionally on the cardboard: Amanda Serrano vs. Erika Cruz, featherweights (for Serrano’s IBF, WBC, WBO and Cruz’s WBA titles); Alycia Baumgardner vs. Elhem Mekhaled, junior lightweights (for Baumgardner’s undisputed championship); Richardson Hitchins vs. John Bauza, junior welterweights; Reshat Mati vs. Keith Hunter, junior welterweights; Skye Nicolson vs. Tania Alvarez, featherweights; Ramla Ali vs. Avril Mathie, junior featherweights
Prediction: Serrano UD
Background: The cardboard options two ladies’s fights by which undisputed championships might be on the road. Serrano, among the many finest feminine fighters pound-for-pound, is the star of the present. The 34-year-old product of Brooklyn has received main titles in seven divisions and continues to carry out at an elite degree although she bounces up and down the load lessons. She misplaced a cut up determination to undisputed 135-pound champ Katie Taylor final April however rebounded to outpoint Sarah Mahfoud in protection of her 126-pound titles in September, her most-recent struggle. Cruz, a 32-year-old from Mexico, is not any pushover. She defeated Jelena Mrdjenovich by a technical determination (after the latter was lower) in 2021 after which shut her out within the rematch two fights later this previous September, proving that she’s among the many finest within the enterprise. Baumgardner (13-1, 7 KOs) is coming off her defining victory, a detailed determination over Mikaela Mayer to seize the IBF, WBC and WBO 130-pound titles final October. Elhem Mekhaled (15-1, 3 KOs) is coming off a unanimous-decision loss to Delfine Persoon final Could, which makes it obscure why she’s getting this chance.
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Amanda Serrano aiming so as to add one thing particular to her resume: undisputed
Amanda Serrano simply outpoints Sarah Mahfoud to unify three 126-pound titles
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Pictures: Katie Taylor, Amanda Serrano give followers gem at Madison Sq. Backyard
