Amanda Serrano has a date for her final fight, and she isn’t going out with a glorified exhibition. Most Valuable Promotions announced Wednesday that Serrano will defend her unified WBO and WBA featherweight titles against Skye Falzon on Saturday, Jan. 9, at Coliseo de Puerto Rico in San Juan. The card streams live on DAZN, and MVP is calling the whole thing The Last Walk.
MMA Fighting reported the announcement, which came with a long statement from Serrano in MVP’s press release. The headline line is plain enough. “This is The Last Walk of my boxing career,” she said, adding that she hopes fans from Puerto Rico, New York and those watching on DAZN show up to share it with her.
The résumé is absurd. Serrano is a seven-weight world champion and the only Puerto Rican boxer to hold undisputed status in the four-belt era. She sits at 50-4 as a pro. That’s 54 fights and a win rate north of 92 percent, which is better than my hit rate on picking which Uber will actually show up. Her trilogy with Katie Taylor is the part history books will lead with, since their first meeting became the first women’s boxing match to headline Madison Square Garden.
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Serrano used the release to go well beyond the fight itself. She credited Nakisa Bidarian, Jake Paul and MVP for backing her and women’s boxing, and she talked about the long road from small theater shows to the Garden. “We’ve fought for respect, equal opportunities, fair pay, and the choice to compete under the same rules as men,” she said. She also said she plans to keep pushing for the next generation after she retires.
Then there’s the homecoming angle, which she clearly cares about most. “To close my career at home in Puerto Rico, in front of the people who have supported me from the beginning, means everything,” Serrano said.
Falzon is the one with the unenviable job. MVP’s promo post on X framed her as a fighter with “14 years of sacrifice” behind her who respects Serrano but plans to make some history of her own in San Juan. Bet365’s news site has already put out a tale of the tape for the matchup. The sources I’m working from didn’t include Falzon’s record, so I won’t guess at it here.
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My quick take: retirement fights are where I get grumpy, because promoters build them like coronations and the betting public prices them like a formality. Two real belts are at stake, though, which means Falzon walks in with a genuine prize to chase and nothing to lose. I don’t have a line in front of me yet, and I’m not going to pretend I do. When one drops, I’ll be watching which direction the money moves. Serrano at home with a crowd that’s been with her since the beginning is the safe bet, and I’ve lost plenty of safe bets. The final bell for one of the best ever is set for Jan. 9 in San Juan.
