Seniesa Estrada (22-0) will make her Prime Rank debut Saturday evening on the Palms On line casino Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada towards Jazmin Villarino (6-1-2). The bout will function the ESPN televised co-feature beneath the Zhanibek Alimkhanuly-Denzel Bentley predominant occasion.
The 30-year-old Southern California hasn’t fought since she stopped Maria Santizo in San Antonio final December and mentioned that she will’t wait to get again within the ring.
“It feels nice to lastly combat. It has been 11 months, over 300 days. This entire 12 months for me has been actually irritating and passed by slowly. I’ve simply needed to be again within the ring and simply needed to combat. I felt like I used to be lacking out. I needed to unify and be undisputed and present that I’m the very best within the weight divisions that I combat in,” Estrada advised BoxingScene.com.
2022 has been a banner 12 months for girls’s boxing with excessive profile fights like Katie Taylor-Amanda Serrano, Claressa Shields-Savannah Marshall and Alycia Baumgardner-Mikael Marshall haven taken place in entrance of big crowds. Every of the aforementioned fights additionally delivered leisure worth within the ring.
At first Estrada felt like she was lacking out however now appears like she has a terrific alternative to arrange her personal unification alternatives to proceed to assist develop the game.
“Quick ahead to now – to have the ability to finish a terrific 12 months for girls’s boxing – I really feel like I did not miss something. Through the time I used to be off, ladies’s boxing stored rising and obtained extra publicity. Now I’m persevering with on a brand new platform with a brand new promoter,” mentioned Estrada.
“The matchups are nice. They’re thrilling. The most effective are combating the very best. That’s as a result of we have now to do this. Not just for us to attempt to get large cash however we additionally need to make these nice matchups. We’re nonetheless far off from what the lads are making however we are attempting to vary that. I feel ladies’s boxing is extra well-liked now as a result of extra promoters are giving profitable the chance to be signed and combat on large platforms.”
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