Gabriela Celeste Alaniz (heart) holds her three belts at Luna Park Stadium on Could 4, 2024 – Photograph by Nelson Quispe/Boxeo de Primera
Gabriela Alaniz by no means gave up on this second.
She envisioned lengthy earlier than her pair of fights with Marlen Esparza. It remained her final objective even after she was denied a call most ought to have gone her manner of their first combat final July.
The extremely questionable majority determination defeat ended Alaniz’s WBO flyweight title reign. Their April 27 rematch noticed the 28-year-old Argentinean acquire her candy revenge. Alaniz (15-1, 6 knockouts) prevailed on two of the three scorecards to take down Esparza to assert The Ring flyweight crown and the WBC, WBA and WBO belts.
Up subsequent is the final chip. Alaniz is about to face unbeaten IBF titlist Gabriela Fundora (14-0, 6 KOs). Their Nov. 2 summit assembly at Virgin Accommodations Las Vegas in poor health crown the first-ever undisputed flyweight champion.
“I’m greater than able to go searching for everlasting glory,” Alaniz instructed The Ring. “It is a nice alternative to satisfy the largest dream and sweep the entire titles.”
Alaniz-Fundora will air dwell on DAZN because the chief help to the Floyd Schofield-Rene Tellez Giron light-weight bout.
Alaniz enters her fifth profession title combat and her third straight within the U.S. Her first combat with Esparza didn’t in any respect deter Alaniz or her group from returning stateside. In reality, ‘La Chucky’ so impressed the Golden Boy Promotions employees that plans had been already in place to carry her again regardless of a championship rematch.
In fact, reclaiming her crown actually helped.
Alaniz and her group needed to combat outdoors the ring simply to make that occur. Georgina Rivero, Alaniz’s career-long promoter, filed a protest with the WBO, who agreed that a right away rematch was warranted versus Esparza.
It was sufficient to stall plans for an Esparza-Fundora undisputed championship conflict earlier this 12 months.
The event hardly compelled Fundora to interrupt stride. She received the IBF belt in a fifth-round knockout of Arely Mucino final October and has already lodged two profitable defenses.
Alaniz did her half to derail Esparza. It cleared a path to crown one other undisputed champion on the ladies’s facet of boxing.
“We’re very proud to be a part of this historic combat for girls’s boxing,” Rivero instructed The Ring. ” I’m very assured concerning the champion who will symbolize Argentina. La Chucky is right here to remain. His legacy has simply begun.”
