Amanda Serrano

Amanda Serrano
Data
Birth Name	Amanda Serrano
Fight name	The real deal
Weight class	Super flyweight
nationality	Puerto Rico
birthday	October 9, 1988
place of birth	Carolina
style	Southpaw
size	1.66 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles	40
Victories	38
Knockout victories	28
Defeats	1
draw	1
Profile in the BoxRec database

Amanda Serrano (born October 9, 1988 in Carolina , Puerto Rico ) is a Puerto Rican boxer and MMA fighter. She was the first boxer ever to win world championship titles in seven weight classes.

Boxing career

Amanda Serrano was born in Puerto Rico but raised in Brooklyn , New York City . Her older sister Cindy Serrano is also a professional boxer and is trained by her husband Jordan Maldonado. After graduating from Bushwick High School in 2006, Amanda also started boxing at Maldonado. As an amateur, she won the New York Golden Gloves in 2008 and made her professional debut on March 20, 2009.

On September 10, 2011 in Brooklyn she won the IBF world title in super featherweight by TKO in the second round against Kimberly Connor. In the subsequent attempt to secure the WBC world featherweight title, she lost on April 27, 2012 in Sweden against Frida Wallberg .

Boxing in featherweight, she won the world championship of the UBF and WIBA associations in the Dominican Republic on February 16, 2013 with a TKO victory in the first round against Wanda Ozuna.

On August 15, 2014, she defeated María Maderna in Argentina by knocking out in the sixth round and thereby became WBO lightweight world champion. She won another WBO featherweight title on February 17, 2016, when she won a TKO first-round win against Olivia Gerula in New York City. She defended the title on July 30, 2016 in Brooklyn by TKO in the first round against Calista Silgado.

On October 18, 2016, she defeated Alexandra Lazar in Puerto Rico in the fight for the vacant WBO super bantamweight title by TKO in the first round. She was already world champion in four weight classes, something that only the Argentine Alejandra Oliveras had achieved before her. She defended the title unanimously on points against Yazmín Rivas in Brooklyn on January 14, 2017. In addition, it was the first women's boxing match broadcast nationally on TV since 2007.

On April 22, 2017, she wrote boxing history in Brooklyn when she defeated Dahiana Santana in the eighth round of the fight for the vacant WBO bantamweight title by TKO and became the first female world champion in five weight classes. She also exceeded the Puerto Rican record of her compatriot Miguel Cotto , who had become champion in four weight classes.

She defended the WBO super bantamweight title again on July 21, 2017 in Puerto Rico by TKO in the third round against Edina Kiss. Against Kiss, she had already contested the first official professional women's boxing match in Puerto Rico on April 22, 2016 and also won through TKO.

On September 8, 2018, she won the vacant WBO light welterweight title in Brooklyn with a unanimous victory on points against Yamila Reynoso and, as a world champion in six weight classes, was equal to male boxing legends Óscar de la Hoya and Manny Pacquiao . She surpassed this record by winning the vacant WBO super flyweight title on January 18, 2019 in New York City, when she knocked out Eva Voraberger in the first round and thus became world champion in the seventh weight class.

On September 13, 2019, she defeated Heather Hardy unanimously on points in the featherweight division and was again WBO world champion and WBC interim world champion in this weight class.

Mixed martial arts

Simultaneously to her boxing career, she began to train in the martial art mixed martial arts (MMA). She made her flyweight debut on April 13, 2018 in Los Angeles for the MMA organization Combate Americas , where she drew against Corina Herrera. She won her second fight prematurely against Eréndira Ordoñez on October 13, 2018 in Tucson .

World title

• September 13, 2019: WBO featherweight champion
• January 18, 2019: WBO super flyweight world champion
• September 8, 2018: WBO light welterweight champion
• April 22, 2017: WBO bantamweight champion
• October 18, 2016: WBO World Superbantamweight Champion (2 title defenses)
• February 17, 2016: WBO Featherweight World Champion (1 title defense)
• August 15, 2014: WBO lightweight world champion
• February 16, 2013: UBF and WIBA world champion in featherweight
• September 10, 2011: IBF Super Featherweight Champion

Other titles

• January 14, 2017: WBC Diamond Superbantamweight Champion
• December 15, 2012: UBF intercontinental super featherweight champion
• June 11, 2011: NABF featherweight champion

Filmography

• 2019; Meet Me in a Happy Place
• 2016; Fight Valley
• 2016; American Latino TV , Season 15, Episode 3
• 2016; Harry , season 1, episode 47

Web links

• Amanda Serrano , BoxRec
• Amanda Serrano , Sherdog
• Amanda Serrano in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Decorated boxing champion Amanda Serrano's switch to MMA shines light on issues in women's boxing
2. ↑ Serrano vs. Connor
3. ↑ Serrano vs. Wallberg
4. ↑ Serrano vs. Ozuna
5. ↑ Serrano vs. Maderna
6. ↑ Serrano vs. Gerula
7. ↑ Serrano vs. Silgado
8. ↑ Serrano vs. Lazar  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
9. ↑ Serrano vs. Rivas
10. ↑ Amanda Serrano's win marks return of nationally televised women's boxing
11. ↑ Serrano vs. Santana
12. ↑ Amanda Serrano makes history, earns title in 5th weight division
13. ↑ Amanda Serrano successfully defends her title
14. ↑ Serrano vs. Kiss I
15. ↑ Amanda Serrano Makes History in Brooklyn
16. ↑ Amanda Serrano destroys Eva Voraberger, wins title in 7th division
17. ↑ Hardy vs Serrano results: Amanda Serrano dominates Heather Hardy to win WBO title
18. ↑ Boxing champ Amanda Serrano goes to draw with Corina Herrera in MMA debut
19. ↑ Amanda Serrano Gets Submission Win in Second MMA Bout