Amanda Serrano to end boxing career with Puerto Rico title fight in January

Amanda Serrano will end her professional boxing career with a title defence in Puerto Rico on 9 January, facing Australia’s Skye Falzon in what the seven-weight world champion says will be her final fight.

The 38-year-old will put her WBA and WBO featherweight titles on the line over 12 three-minute rounds at the Coliseo de Puerto Rico in San Juan. Serrano said fighting at home, in front of supporters who had backed her from the beginning, “means everything”.

Serrano has a professional record of 50 wins, four defeats and one draw. She will also have one last chance to surpass the women’s knockout record of 32, held by American boxing pioneer Christy Martin. Serrano fell short of the mark in her previous bout, when she beat Argentina’s Lucrecia Manzur by majority decision to claim her 50th victory.

The fight, billed as The Last Walk, will be Falzon’s 15th as a professional. The 37-year-old Australian has won 12 of her 14 fights, including seven by knockout.

Serrano, who turned professional in 2009, is the only Puerto Rican boxer, male or female, to become an undisputed world champion. She said she would continue advocating for women’s boxing after retiring, adding: “There’s still more work to do, and I’ll continue fighting for the next generation long after I hang up my gloves.”

Her career has included a trilogy of fights with Ireland’s Katie Taylor, who won all three. Serrano and Taylor became the first women to headline a boxing event at Madison Square Garden in 2022. Taylor retired in September 2026 after beating Flora Pili at Dublin’s Croke Park.