Several reported firsts in women’s boxing history will happen simultaneously when unified WBA and WBO featherweight champion Amanda “The Real Deal” Serrano defends her belts against No. 2 WBO contender Lucrecia Manzur on Friday, August 21, at Pechanga Resort Casino in Temecula, California.
Most Valuable Promotions announced today that Serrano, 49-4-1 (32 KOs), of Puerto Rico and Manzur, 14-4 (7 KOs) of Argentina will headline a night of boxing broadcast live, purportedly for the first time ever, on TikTok LIVE.
Against Manzur, Serrano will also be going for the all-time record for career knockouts by a female fighter. 37-year-old Serrano tied the existing record of 32 last May by stopping Cheyenne Hanson in two rounds. She is currently even with pioneering women’s star Cristy Martin, who recorded her last knockout in 2005 before retiring in 2012.
In addition, Serrano-Manzur will be contested over 12 two-minute rounds, which will be the first-ever unified women’s world championship fight contested at that distance. Notably, in 2023, Serrano’s unanimous decision win over Danila Ramos was the first women’s unified championship fight contested over 12 three-minute rounds.
Serrano already holds several other distinctions in her lengthy career. She is listed in the Guinness World Records for winning the most world championships (seven) by a female in different weight classes. The great Manny Pacquiao holds the record for men, also seven different divisions. She is also the first male or female undisputed world champion of the four-belt era from Puerto Rico.
In addition, Serrano is one of the first women to headline Madison Square Garden, which she and Katie Taylor did in 2022.
The rematch against Taylor in November 2024, in the co-main event of the Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson fight on Netflix, was the most-watched professional women’s sporting event in U.S. history (est. 47 million), averaging an estimated 74 million global live viewers.
