This Sunday (May 1st), Beijing time, there are 2 important matches in the world boxing world. First, the current WBC lightweight boxing champion Mexican Oscar Valdez (30-0, 23KO) will face off against WBO sub-lightweight American Shaq Stevenson (17-0, 9KO), a 130-pound boxing battle, a showdown between the two undefeated boxers. The competition will be held at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, USA. On the morning of May 1, the official website of the boxing aircraft carrier will provide a satellite super-clear live broadcast of this big war (source signal, the clearest on the whole network).
Oscar Valdez, 31, currently has a professional record of 30 wins and 23 KO opponents, and is now ranked Second overall in boxrec-130 pounds. With a height of 1.66 meters and an arm span of 1.68 meters, Valdez was impressed by his previous WBC lightweight KO in 10 rounds last February. However, in the match last September and the 2016 Olympic lightweight champion Brazilian Robertson Kensecao (17-1, 8KO), Waldez played a lackluster game, and many people believed that he won by refereeing after the game. Waldez also found phentermine in the pre-match flight inspection, but WBC believed that it was not a doping and allowed the game to continue, which also made many people's impression of Waldez less impressive.
The 24-year-old Shaq Stevenson has a professional record of 17 wins and 9 KO opponents. Like Waldez, he previously won the WBO World Champion at 126 pounds before upgrading to 130 pounds. However, compared to the offensive style of Valdez, Shaq Stevenson is a defensive counterattack boxer, good at grinding points with opponents, and his playing style is more oily. Shaq Stevenson, who won a silver medal in featherweight boxing at the 2016 Olympics, was once hand-picked by Mayweather (50-0, 27KO) as his successor, but Arum made the first move and signed him. Shaq Stevenson is 1.70 meters tall and has an arm span of 1.73 meters, and last October 10 round TKO American Jame Herling (23-3-1, 11KO), this time at 1-5 odds, may be because Valdez was disappointed in the last game.
On the morning of May 1, there is also a high-profile match at Madison Garden Plaza in New York, where the current WBC/WBA/IBF/WBO women's lightweight boxing champion Katie Taylor (20-0, 6KO) will face the seven-tier women's champion, Puerto Rican Amanda Serrano (42-1-1, 30KO). Taylor is now no. 1 in ESPN-P4P and No. 2 in Serrano, the first time in the history of boxing that a female boxer has made headlines, arguably the most significant match in women's boxing history to date.
The 35-year-old Katie Taylor won the gold medal at the 2012 London Olympics as an amateur boxer, won the WBA women's lightweight boxing championship in her seventh game after entering the professional boxing world, and has successfully defended her title 13 times in a row and successfully unified 135 pounds. In 2019, she also reached 140 pounds and took a WBO King Gold Belt, and has since returned to 135 pounds. Taylor is 1.65 meters tall and has an arm span of 1.68 meters, which has a good image among female boxers and is popular.
The 33-year-old Serrano has a professional record of 42 wins, 1 loss and 1 draw, 30 ko opponents, and the KO rate among female boxers is very high. In the past 10 years, Serrano has won the world championships in the 130, 135, 126, 122, 118, 140, and 115 pounds, and can weigh high and low, and the span of Dalian Avarez (57-1-2, 39KO) is unmatched. In 2021, Serrano played three games, played twice at 126 pounds and once at 135 pounds. The odds are currently 1-2, with Serrano being more favoured and her boxing talent seemingly slightly better than Katie Taylor's.