Amanda Serrano retained her WBA and WBO featherweight belts with a slim majority resolution over Argentina’s Lucrecia Manzur within the first world title struggle to be streamed stay on TikTok.
The Puerto Rican was made to work for her fiftieth profession win, edging a majority resolution however lacking the thirty third knockout she wanted to interrupt the ladies’s document, remaining on 32.
Serrano’s struggle, held over 12 two-minute rounds, could not have delivered a document‑breaking knockout, however it drew 3.4 million whole views on TikTok.
The 37-year-old continues to be some of the watched feminine fighters on the planet, along with her third struggle in opposition to Eire’s Katie Taylor final yr drawing an viewers of six million on Netflix and their rematch in 2024 getting over 50 million on the identical platform.
Friday’s struggle in Temeculam, California was scored 114-114, 116-112 and 116-112 in favour of Serrano.
Manzur troubled the champion early with repeated proper fingers, however the Argentine drained as Serrano seized momentum from spherical 9 and completed the struggle in management.
Talking after the bout, Serrano stated: “I’m so pleased and honoured. That was the primary championship foremost occasion struggle on TikTok guys, tremendous excited, tremendous honoured.”
On Manzur, Serrano added: “I knew this lady was robust. She’s younger. She’s 27. She’s 10 years youthful than me. These women are getting youthful and stronger.
“She was hungry, and I knew that coming into coaching. I educated very arduous as a result of I knew it was a possibility for her, so I needed to come on my A recreation.”
The unified champion will now be hoping to eclipse Christy Martin with a thirty third stoppage in her farewell struggle, which she plans to stage in Puerto Rico later this yr or in early 2027.