Lucrecia Manzur

Bio

Lucrecia Manzur is an Argentine featherweight who has fought her way to the number two spot in the WBO rankings the hard way. She is 14-4 with 7 knockouts, and that record is a lot more respectable than a quick glance suggests — the losses have come in fights she took on short notice or away from home, which is how the majority of South American fighters build a career.

She is a come-forward fighter with genuine spite in her right hand, and 7 stoppages in 14 wins is a decent return at a weight where knockouts are not exactly common. She does not do a lot of moving. She walks people down, works behind a high guard, and tries to make it ugly.

Make no mistake, taking on Amanda Serrano is the biggest ask in the featherweight division and Manzur knows exactly what she has signed up for. Plenty of contenders would have found a reason to wait for an easier route to a belt. She did not, and she deserves credit for it.

She challenges Serrano for the unified WBA and WBO featherweight titles in Temecula, California, in a fight streamed live on TikTok — the first world championship boxing event ever staged on the platform. Win or lose, it is the biggest audience of her career by a distance.