Nina Meinke is ready to hold on the mission set forth by Amanda Serrano.
The number-one ranked IBF featherweight is ready to problem for the vacant title. Meinke will face former three-division titlist Daniela Bermudez. Their bout will likely be contested over twelve, three-minute rounds on Sept. 21 at Boxsporthalle Hamburg in Hamburg, Germany.
The winner will fill the void left behind by Serrano (47-2-1, 31 knockouts), who relinquished the title on July 19.
Serrano and Meinke (18-3, 4 KOs) had been because of meet on March 2 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The phrases for that championship battle had been additionally set for twelve, three minute rounds. Serrano was because of defend her RING, WBA, IBF and WBO championship. The battle was canceled actually on the final minute when the Puerto Rican southpaw was not medically cleared because of a burnt cornea suffered previous to the weigh-in.
Meinke remained the highest contender in line for the belt. Nonetheless, Serrano subsequently agreed to a much more profitable rematch with Eire’s Katie Taylor (23-1, 6 KOs). They are going to meet on Nov. 15 for Taylor’s undisputed 140-pound championship.
Serrano nonetheless holds the RING, WBA and WBO featherweight titles. She vacated the WBC belt over the sanctioning physique’s refusal to budge on the standard girls’s distance of ten, two-minute rounds.
Meinke will enter her second profession title battle. The 31-year-old southpaw from Berlin dropped a aggressive ten-round resolution to then-unbeaten IBF featherweight titlist Sarah Mahfoud in April 2022. Six wins have adopted, although she has not fought since an Oct. 28 resolution over Laura Ledezma in Berlin.
Argentina’s Bermudez (32-4-3, 12 KOs) will make her second try to turn into a four-division titlist.
Her earlier bid led to a March 2021 ninth-round knockout to Serrano in Outdated San Juan. Bermudez moved up in weight after having beforehand held titles at 115, 118 and 122.
Bermudez, 35, has since received three in a row, together with back-to-back knockout victories. The battle versus Meinke will come precisely 52 weeks from her final ring look. Bermudez knocked out Lucrecia Anabella Manzur within the third spherical of their Sept. 23 regional title battle in Villa Maria, Argentina.
