August 2, 2023 6:40 pm ET
Amanda Serrano is returning to MMA beneath a brand new group.
The multiple-time boxing world champion has signed an unique MMA take care of the PFL, the promotion introduced Wednesday, and is predicted to compete beneath the promotion’s “superfight” pay-per-view sequence. No date or opponent was introduced.
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Welcome to the Skilled Fighters League @Serranosisters
“The Actual Deal” is signed and set to battle within the PFL’s PPV Superfight division pic.twitter.com/38LgKRYdUD
— PFL (@PFLMMA) August 2, 2023 Serrano is among the largest stars in girls’s boxing. She at present holds the WBA, WBC, IBF, WBO, IBO and The Ring girls’s featherweight titles and has a boxing document of 44-2-1.
In 2022, she took half in arguably the most important match in girls’s boxing historical past when she fought Irish star Katie Taylor for the light-weight titles at Madison Sq. Backyard in New York, however misplaced a break up resolution. Since that setback, she’s picked up resolution wins over Sarah Mahfoud and Erika Cruz and is predicted to return Saturday towards Heather Hardy on the Jake Paul vs. Nate Diaz occasion in Dallas.
Though Serrano is understood for her boxing, she’s no stranger to MMA with a 2-0-1 document. Her most up-to-date MMA battle was in 2021 when she submitted Valentina Garcia at iKON FF 7 in Mexico.
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