Six division boxing world champion Amanda Serrano says there’s no respect for women in boxing, but in MMA it’s all different.

To say that Amanda Serrano is an accomplished boxer, would be an understatement. She’s won world titles in six different divisions and is the only women’s boxer to do so. She’s also the only Puerto Rican boxer (man or woman) to accomplish that feat. She’s suffered only one loss inside the boxing ring and has racked up a whopping 34 wins, 26 of those by knockout, so when she tweeted (then deleted) that she was done with boxing and wanted to focus on MMA many wondered why.

“When I posted that tweet it was pretty much out of frustration,” Serrano told FanSided. “So many years and so many accomplishments in the sport of boxing and I have gotten pretty much nothing. My pay sucks. I’m a six-time world champion, only the third person to do so and I’m still getting treated like I am a beginner. There was frustration from broken promises from promoters and the networks. In MMA they treat me so well. [Combate Americas] treats me so well, I’m getting paid more than I got paid for my last fight. I’m looking at it from a different picture, I’m getting so much respect and I’m getting more exposure.”

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That tweet isn’t how she feels now, not exactly anyways. She’s definitely putting her time and attention into MMA but she’s not closing the door on boxing entirely either.

“Right now in boxing, it’s only the big fights for me,” she said. “Someday I’d love to beat my own record and become a seventh division world champion but for now there’s so much ground I need to cover in MMA so that’s where my focus is.”

Serrano feels that a lot of the issues with boxing is her gender, something that she feels isn’t an issue with MMA and Combate Americas.

“In MMA they respect the females a lot more than they do in boxing,” she said. “It’s about time, I have been boxing for 11 years and I have only been fighting MMA for half a year and I’ve already gotten so much more than in boxing.”

She feels that the bias has a lot to do with the age of the sport.

“MMA is a newer sport, boxing has been around a lot longer,” she said. “Boxing fans are a little more set in their ways, old school. They are stuck on the same thing, men should be fighting, women shouldn’t be. Ronda Rousey helped a lot, not just for women’s MMA but for women’s combats sports as a whole. After she came along, she opened doors. Female boxing changed a little bit after that, but it didn’t change as much as it did in MMA. In MMA you see multiple female fights on TV, but in boxing, they are almost never on TV, no one ever gets to see them. You have to show them, even if they don’t want to see it because they’ll watch and eventually like it when they see we can fight.”

Serrano now fights under the Combate Americas banner and will headline their next show, but her MMA debut didn’t go exactly as planned. She fought a three-round war with Corina Herrera, but when the fight went to the scorecards the judges deemed it a draw. It was clear that Serrano had one the first two rounds but Herrera came back in the third and tied it up.

“I’m new to the sport, so I wasn’t really too sure how the judging would go,” she said. “In a boxing match best two out of three would have won, but not in MMA. But hats off to my opponent, she came to fight and there was no losing in that fight, I learned.”

Now she’s gearing up for her second shot at a victory in “La Jaula” when she faces Erendira Ordonez in the main event at Combate Americas: USA vs. Mexico in Tucson, AZ.

“After that fight, I went back to the gym and perfected how to get up from the floor,” she said. “MMA is not boxing and I definitely learned that. I know my next opponent is a striker, but with kicks and stuff like that, but I don’t pay too much attention to them, I let me team do the research and then we just train defending kicks and stuff like that.”

Though Serrano is adamant she see’s a win in her future, she’s hesitant to say exactly how that will come.

“I definitely want to see a nice knockout,” she laughed. “But I don’t like to make predictions anymore because especially in MMA you never know.”

Combate Americas: USA vs. Mexico takes place on Saturday, Oct. 13, 2018, live from Tucson, AZ and can be watched live on DAZN.