Jake Paul-Mike Perry, Amanda Serrano-Stevie Morgan, Undercard Weigh-In Results from Tampa
Jake Paul vs Mike Perry Press Conference. Photo credit: Esther Lin, Most Important Promotions
Jake Paul and Amanda Serrano have gone through different ways to move forward with their battles to stay engaged.
The show will continue as all fighters square off at Saturday's Pay-Per-View event at the AMALIE Arena in Tampa, Florida. Paul needed a second attempt to get down to 200-pound cruiserweight. Mike Perry (0-1)—MMA and BKFC star—weighed in at 196.6 pounds for his second pro fight.
Their fight headlines a PPV show hosted by DAZN and PPV.com (Saturday, 9:00 pm ET).
Paul (9-1, 6 knockouts) originally weighed 200.4 pounds when officials weighed in on Friday. The influencer and aging cruiserweight contender came right back at 200 pounds a few minutes later.
This is the second fight of the year for Paul, who was supposed to face Mike Tyson. The fight was delayed for four months when Tyson, a former Hall of Fame champion, was hospitalized.
The decision was made for Paul and several members of his stable to go ahead with the scheduled fight date. Paul, Serrano (46-2-1, 30 KOs) and H2O Sylve (11-0, 9 KOs) all found new opponents in the event.
Serrano was 136 pounds, while Stevie Morgan (14-1, 13 KOs) settled in at 136.6 pounds.
Both were under the contract limit for their scheduled 10-round junior welterweight bout.
Serrano is the RING, WBA, IBF and WBO featherweight champion. The popular seven-division contender was scheduled to face 140-pound champion Katie Taylor (23-1, 6 KOs) on the Tyson-Paul undercard. A replay of their historic meeting in April 2022 will go ahead on the rescheduled date of Nov. 15 in Arlington, Texas.
Taylor, who won by split decision, chose to sit out; Serrano chose to move on.
The fight will be the fifth for the 35-year-old Boricua southpaw, who was born in Brooklyn, since his heartbreaking loss to Taylor. She returned to featherweight defeating Sarah Mahfoud (11-0 and IBF list at the time) and Erika Cruz (WBA) to fully consolidate the decision. Serrano then added to the scoring with wins over Heather Hardy and Danila Ramos in separate title defenses.
His decision to face Morgan was to get used to the top weight. She has fought this heavyweight once before—a September 2018 victory over Yamila Reynoso (11-4-3 at the time) to win the WBO 140-pound title. He weighed 138 ½ pounds but actually entered the ring at 134 pounds.
Morgan has won six in a row since the lone loss of his career. It all happened in Colombia and met with limited opposition.
Below are the undercard weights.
10 light rounds
H2O Sylve (11-0, 9 KOs), Long Beach, California 134.4 pounds
Lucas Bahdi (16-0, 14 KOs), Niagara Falls, Canada, 134 pounds
6 rounds of cruiserweight
Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (53-6-1, 34 KOs), Culiacan, Mexico, 197.8 pounds
Uriah Hall (1-0, 0 KOs), Las Vegas via Spanish Town, Jamaica, 199.6 pounds
8 light rounds
Tony Aguilar (12-0-1, 4 KOs), Crescent City, Florida, 134.6 pounds
Corey Marksman (9-0-1, 7 KOs), Orlando, 134.2 pounds
8 rounds of super middleweight
Shadasia Green (13-1, 11 KOs), Paterson, New Jersey, 167.4 pounds
Natasha Spence (8-4-2, 6 KOs), Cambridge, Canada 166.4 pounds
4 middleweight rounds
Alexis Chaparro (1-0, 1 KO), Ridgewood, New York, 159 pounds
Kevin Hall (1-1, 1 KO), Saint Louis, Missouri, 159 pounds
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