Amanda Serrano presented the fight that will end 18 years as a professional on Tuesday 3 November, at the Distrito T-Mobile in San Juan. It takes place on 9 January 2027 at the Coliseo de Puerto Rico, against Australia's Skye Falzon, and the card is billed as "The Last Walk".
The Puerto Rican, 38, arrives with a record of 50 wins — 32 by knockout — four losses and one draw. Falzon, also 38, has 12 wins, seven inside the distance, and two defeats.
Twelve three-minute rounds, again
Serrano will defend her featherweight (126 lb) belts from the World Boxing Organization (WBO) and the World Boxing Association (WBA). She will do it in the format she has campaigned for over years: twelve three-minute rounds, the same as in men's boxing, rather than the ten two-minute rounds standard on women's cards.
It is not the first time. In 2023 Serrano beat Brazil's Danila Ramos in what was the first women's unified world title fight contested over that distance. That her farewell repeats the format amounts, in practice, to one last signature on the same argument.
The record still missing
Serrano's 32 knockout wins match Christy Martin's mark in women's boxing. One more stoppage on 9 January would make her the first woman to reach 33 — something the champion herself described as the cherry on top of her career.
"If the knockout comes, it comes," she said at the press conference, declining to commit to a prediction.
A career that moved the calendar
A world champion in seven divisions, Serrano is the first and only Puerto Rican boxer — man or woman — to have been an undisputed champion. In 2022 she and Ireland's Katie Taylor headlined the first women's card to be the main event at New York's Madison Square Garden.
Asked how she wants to be remembered, she said she would like to be seen as someone who changed the rules of the game. By her account, the decision to retire came down to timing, and she always knew the end would come in Puerto Rico.
The Coliseo de Puerto Rico also has unfinished business with her: an eye injury in March 2024 forced her to pull out of a bout she was due to contest there, according to EFE.
"Puerto Rico, my beautiful island, thank you for all the love, all the support and all the affection," she said in closing.
The card is promoted by Most Valuable Promotions and will be broadcast by DAZN.
With information from EFE, Reuters and Primera Hora.
