Two-belt minimumweight titleholder Seniesa Estrada will lastly get the struggle she has longed for when she confronts Yokasta Valle in Glendale, Arizona, on March 29.
“It’s aid and pleasure,” Estrada informed Boxing Scene of the undisputed title struggle with Valle, her Costa Rican rival and fellow two-belt titleholder.
“It has been years within the making. However as we had been saying, although it has been years within the making attempting to make this struggle, there is no such thing as a higher time to do it than now as a result of girls’s boxing has been the very best that it has been – ever. I’m completely happy we had been in a position to get this publicity on this platform.”
Estrada and Valle, each 31, will sq. off to find out who’s the main fighter at 105 kilos. They beforehand shared a promoter – till Estrada signed with High Rank in 2022, after rising disillusioned with Golden Boy Promotions.
Estrada and Golden Boy chairman Oscar De La Hoya hugged in February at a fight-week press convention for the Teofimo Lopez–Jamaine Ortiz bout, but when forgiven, it appears all just isn’t forgotten.
“It’s one thing that I at all times take personally as a result of it’s my profession,” Estrada mentioned of the cut up. “No person is aware of what I went by means of with that state of affairs, however I don’t need any animosity with Oscar and Golden Boy Promotions throughout the build-up to this struggle. I simply wanna struggle; I simply wish to go in there and stroll out of the ring as undisputed champion. That would be the finest feeling – higher than all of the speaking I can do.”
Estrada hopes her rivalry with Valle and the draw of watching the minimumweight division’s first-ever undisputed champion be topped will entice curiosity in a weight class that hasn’t but caught as much as the recognition of among the different girls’s divisions.
“I’ve been attempting to get eyes on these decrease weight divisions, as a result of we have now it with Amanda Serrano, Katie Taylor, Mikaela Mayer,” Estrada mentioned. “All these weight lessons are stacked and have had eyes on them, however there has by no means been a fighter like me to convey that publicity and a platform to the decrease weight divisions. I’m glad we will do it.”
Estrada desires to be acknowledged as an all-time nice fighter, interval – not only a nice feminine fighter. The Valle struggle, which is able to function chief assist to the Oscar Valdez–Liam Wilson foremost occasion, will characteristic two minute rounds – a format in girls’s boxing that Estrada and different contemporaries are more and more pushing again on.
“I’ve been desirous to go to 3 minute rounds since I first turned professional,” Estrada mentioned. “Three-minute rounds is one thing that may assist girls’s boxing, as a result of we’d be capable of present higher ring IQ, talent stage and we’d simply have extra time. I feel that’s one thing that I wish to see change, for positive.”
Past that, Estrada says, placing the very best fighters in in opposition to each other will assist elevate girls’s boxing over the lengthy haul.
“That’s one thing struggle followers will wish to see – two extremely expert fighters being matched up with one another,” she mentioned. “That’s what will assist, for positive.”
