The 37-year-old Serrano is slated to put her WBA and WBO featherweight world titles on the line against Cheyenne Hanson at El Paso County Coliseum in El Paso, Texas tonight, but there is still one ambition left in her crosshairs that would put on a bow on her illustrious ledger. In fact, the Puerto Rican sensation has a name for it — “the Christy Martin knockout goal.”

Serrano enters this weekend with 31 knockouts to her name, one shy of tying the Hall of Famer’s mark of 32 for the most knockouts in women’s boxing history.

“We’re hoping we tie the record (tonight) and then break the record,” Serrano told DAZN News last month in New York City, where she was in attendance for the Ronda Rousey-Gina Carano press conference. “That’s my next and final goal and then hopefully hang up the gloves.”

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Christy Salters Martin is all for Serrano breaking her longstanding record.

“I think it is truly amazing that the record has stood this long,” Martin told DAZN News via email. “If it is going to be broken, I sincerely hope Amanda does it.”

She has another wish as well — that fight fans who aren’t familiar with her name dig into the vaults.

“I hope with the talk of her breaking my record, it has fans looking at my fights,” Martin continued, “so they understand how my generation truly paved the way for this generation.”

The former super welterweight world champion added: “The knockouts showed fans that women can fight too.”

‘The Coal Miner’s Daughter’ fought on several Mike Tyson cards and clashed with the likes of Laila Ali, Mia St. John and Holly Holm, who coincidentally headlines this weekend’s card in a rematch against Stephanie Han.

Serrano has long been a fan of Martin’s, having well scouted the record for its significance.

“It would mean everything,” Serrano said of setting a new mark. “She’s had it for over 21 years. I love Christy Martin, she’s definitely a pioneer in this sport.”

Martin fought on the Tyson-Frank Bruno rematch main card in Las Vegas in 1996 in a bout that Katie Taylor told Sports Illustrated “put women’s boxing on the map.”

After enduring early low paydays herself, Martin went on to reportedly amass $4.5 million in career earnings from boxing, according to ESPN, and have a biopic made about her via the 2025 film “CHRISTY, which featured Sydney Sweeney portraying her. After elevating women’s boxing, it’s Martin now crediting Serrano and Most Valuable Promotions (MVP) co-founder Jake Paul for altering the landscape of women’s boxing yet again, developing a roster of some of the sport’s top talent and ensuring they receive better pay.

“She and Jake Paul have changed the face of women's boxing,” Martin said. “It is now acceptable to be a female fighter.”

Just as Martin would regularly offer blood and guts of a true fighting warrior, ‘The Coal Miner’s Daughter’ salutes Serrano and refers to her as “the most well-rounded female fighter" amongst the current crop.

A stoppage win tonight and Serrano would stand side by side with Martin in women’s boxing history for knockouts. A fight later this year would then afford Serrano the opportunity to sew up a legendary career with the record in tow.

“For me to do that, that’d be an honor,” Serrano said before jabbing in jest, “… and hopefully it could stay for another 20 years when I break it.”

Analysis: Two generations of legends

DAZN News’ Mark Lelinwalla

I vividly remember being a kid huddled around the television with the family in Queens, New York, watching Christy Martin fight on Mike Tyson cards and being in awe of the ferocity ‘The Coal Miner’s Daughter’ fought with.

Fast forward to 2018 and I recall stepping foot into The Dojo NYC in the Ridgewood section of Queens. There, Serrano and her older sister Cindy Serrano told me how they worked full-time jobs as boxing trainers, in addition to their sweet science careers, because their pro boxing pay was so meager. And Serrano was the reigning WBO super bantamweight world champion at the time!

Beat down by the sport she loved, but one that didn’t reciprocate in pay, Serrano continued her slow grind. She signed with Jake Paul’s MVP in 2021 and became a superstar with deserving seven-figure paydays attached to her iconic trilogy with Katie Taylor, who she fought at Madison Square Garden twice with AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas — home of the Dallas Cowboys — in the interim.

Serrano, along with Taylor and Claressa Shields and a host of new stars behind them, took the precedent set by Martin, Ann Wolf and Laila Ali and have only elevated women’s boxing and the sport overall.

The knockout record would be the cherry on top for an absolutely remarkable career.