Gabriela Celeste Alaniz (heart) holds her three belts at Luna Park Stadium on Could 4, 2024 – Picture by Nelson Quispe/Boxeo de Primera
Gabriela Alaniz by no means gave up on this second.
She envisioned lengthy earlier than her pair of fights with Marlen Esparza. It remained her final objective even after she was denied a choice most ought to have gone her means of their first struggle final July.
The extremely questionable majority resolution defeat ended Alaniz’s WBO flyweight title reign. Their April 27 rematch noticed the 28-year-old Argentinean achieve her candy revenge. Alaniz (15-1, 6 knockouts) prevailed on two of the three scorecards to take down Esparza to assert The Ring flyweight crown and the WBC, WBA and WBO belts.
Up subsequent is the final chip. Alaniz is ready to face unbeaten IBF titlist Gabriela Fundora (14-0, 6 KOs). Their Nov. 2 summit assembly at Virgin Inns Las Vegas ailing crown the first-ever undisputed flyweight champion.
“I’m greater than able to go in quest of everlasting glory,” Alaniz informed The Ring. “This can be a nice alternative to meet the largest dream and sweep all the titles.”
Alaniz-Fundora will air reside on DAZN because the chief help to the Floyd Schofield-Rene Tellez Giron light-weight bout.
Alaniz enters her fifth profession title struggle and her third straight within the U.S. Her first struggle with Esparza didn’t in any respect deter Alaniz or her group from returning stateside. In reality, ‘La Chucky’ so impressed the Golden Boy Promotions employees that plans have been already in place to carry her again regardless of a championship rematch.
In fact, reclaiming her crown actually helped.
Alaniz and her group needed to struggle outdoors the ring simply to make that occur. Georgina Rivero, Alaniz’s career-long promoter, filed a protest with the WBO, who agreed that a direct rematch was warranted versus Esparza.
It was sufficient to stall plans for an Esparza-Fundora undisputed championship conflict earlier this yr.
The event hardly pressured Fundora to interrupt stride. She received the IBF belt in a fifth-round knockout of Arely Mucino final October and has already lodged two profitable defenses.
Alaniz did her half to derail Esparza. It cleared a path to crown one other undisputed champion on the ladies’s facet of boxing.
“We’re very proud to be a part of this historic struggle for girls’s boxing,” Rivero informed The Ring. ” I’m very assured concerning the champion who will symbolize Argentina. La Chucky is right here to remain. His legacy has simply begun.”
