Latina Boxers Breaking Barriers: 5 Fighters to Know in 2026

Latina boxers in the United States are no longer the exception in women's boxing, they are setting its records. Amanda Serrano holds the Guinness World Record for the most world titles won by a female boxer in different weight classes. Seniesa Estrada retired undefeated as an undisputed world champion. And a new generation with Jennifer Lozano, Yoseline Pérez, Suzana Rodríguez Griffin are building toward the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics on home soil. Here are five Latina fighters who changed what the ring looks like, and where each of them stands in 2026.

How Women's Boxing Fought Its Way Into The Ring

Women's boxing spent more than a century being told no.

At the 1904 St. Louis Olympic Games, women's boxing appeared only as a demonstration and exhibition, the official competition was men-only, and the Olympic committee went on to reject women's participation outright, calling it a health risk. In the early 20th century, women who took up any sport were widely dismissed as unfeminine and pushed to the margins.

The wall did not crack until 1993, when 16-year-old Dallas Malloy sued USA Boxing after being denied a competition license because she was a girl. A federal judge granted an injunction, USA Boxing lifted its ban, and that October Malloy fought Heather Poyner in the first sanctioned amateur bout between two women in the United States.

Women's soccer entered the Olympic program in 1996. Women's boxing had to wait until the 2012 London Games, 108 years after that St. Louis exhibition where 36 women competed across three weight classes against 250 men in ten.

Latinas have always been in the ring, the fields especially in the case of soccer or futbol, all were in that fight from the beginning. These five carried it forward.

Jennifer Lozano: "La Traviesa" and the Road to LA 2028

Jennifer Lozano, born November 24, 2002, grew up in Laredo, Texas, in a family of Mexican descent. The nickname "La Traviesa" or the mischievous one came from her grandmother, who used it for a restless child who could not sit still.

She came to boxing the way many fighters do: out of necessity. Bullied over her weight and her accent, she needed to defend herself. What began as self-defense became a career.

Lozano won silver in the 50 kg light flyweight division at the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile, and with it a place at the Paris Olympics becoming the first Olympian from Laredo in any sport. Her Games ended early: on August 1, 2024, she lost a unanimous decision to Finland's Pihla Kaivo-oja in her opening bout, fighting through illness.

She did not step away. Lozano moved up to 51 kg, took bronze at the 2025 World Boxing Cup in Brazil, and in May 2026 went 7–0 to win gold at the Copa América tournament in Girardot, Colombia, three of those wins by referee stoppage. Women's Boxing Archive Network named her its June 2026 Fighter of the Month.

At 23, she is now one of Team USA's strongest cases for a home-soil Olympic title in Los Angeles in 2028.

"I know what I'm capable of. And I know back in my hometown, I'm showing every kid that they can do it." — Jennifer Lozano

Yoseline Pérez: Houston's World-Medal Breakthrough

Yoseline Pérez was born in Houston, Texas, on March 13, 2004, to parents who immigrated from Mexico. Boxing was already in the house, she has four older brothers who trained and at 10 she asked to join them at the gym.

She was turned away. She used it.

Pérez won the 2019 USA Boxing National Youth Championship, then took gold at 57 kg at the 2022 IBA Youth World Championships at 18. Her biggest result came on September 14, 2025, in Liverpool, England, where she won silver at 54 kg at the World Boxing Championships the first senior global medal for an American woman since 2022, and a meaningful marker after Team USA's women were shut out of the medals in Paris.

She has been open about the target since she was a teenager: to become the first Mexican-American woman to win Olympic boxing gold. Los Angeles 2028 is the stage she has been pointing at.

"A year ago, I would have never imagined I'd come this far." — Yoseline Pérez

Suzana Rodríguez Griffin: Indiana's First Latina Pro

Suzana "Latina Style" Rodríguez Griffin found boxing in college and got a lot of no's first. "Walked into the gym and I fell in love," she has said.

A first-generation college graduate whose grandparents were migrant farm workers, she built a decorated amateur career: five-time Indiana State Golden Gloves champion, four-time national champion, the 2009 Women's National Golden Gloves champion, and an Indiana Best Female Fighter honoree.

In 2024 she turned professional and became the first Latina professional boxer in Indiana then founded La Jefa Promotions to put other women on cards. She has co-owned SRG Boxing n Personal Training in Indianapolis with her husband Darnell since 2010, and has spent more than sixteen years coaching, much of it with young people in the Latine community.

"Become the best you can be, by inspiring passion to attract success." — Suzana Rodríguez Griffin

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Amanda Serrano: Brooklyn's Puerto Rican Powerhouse

Amanda Serrano was born in Carolina, Puerto Rico, on October 9, 1988, and raised in Brooklyn and she has spent her career refusing to be made smaller by either place. She is the most decorated Latina boxer in the sport's history, and at 37 she is still the one setting the terms.

Nine Titles, Seven Divisions, One World Record

Serrano holds the Guinness World Record for the most boxing world championships won in different weight classes by a female boxer, nine major world titles across seven divisions. Fighters build entire careers inside one weight class. She built hers by moving through the sport and taking a belt at nearly every stop.

As of August 2026, her professional record stands at 50 wins, 4 losses and 1 draw with 32 knockouts. She reached that fiftieth win on August 22, 2026, taking a majority decision over Lucrecia Manzur to keep her unified WBA and WBO featherweight titles. She went into that night one stoppage from breaking Christy Martin's all-time women's knockout record; twelve rounds later she was still tied with Martin at 32. It is the rarest kind of milestone, a career win total most fighters never approach, reached on a night she was chasing something else entirely.

What The Katie Taylor Trilogy Built

Her rivalry with Ireland's Katie Taylor did as much for women's boxing as any line on her record. In April 2022 the two headlined Madison Square Garden, the first women's fight ever to top that building and Serrano lost a split decision in a bout many at ringside scored for her. Their November 2024 rematch went out live on Netflix and reached roughly 50 million households worldwide, a number no women's fight had come close to. Their July 2025 trilogy bout brought them back to the Garden.

Serrano lost all three on the cards - split, unanimous, majority and by any honest accounting drew more people to women's boxing in losing than most fighters manage in winning. Netflix built a docuseries, Countdown: Taylor vs. Serrano, around the buildup to that third fight. The sport's biggest audiences in its history have Serrano's name on them.

"I promised my fans they would see this rematch. This is what elite women's boxing is all about." — Amanda Serrano

The Fight Outside The Ring

Serrano has been the loudest voice for one specific reform: letting women fight twelve three-minute rounds, the same as men, instead of the ten two-minute rounds the sport has long imposed on them. She has argued it publicly, pushed for it in negotiations, and framed it as the difference between being taken seriously and being managed. It is a technical rule change that carries the whole argument about how women's boxing is valued.

She has translated that standing into leverage. In March 2025 she signed an unprecedented lifetime contract with Most Valuable Promotions, the Jake Paul–backed outfit that promoted the Taylor fights, along with a front-office role — a fighter with an ownership stake in how the sport gets built, not just a name on the poster. She was named to TIME's inaugural TIME100 Sports list.

Where She Stands Now

At 37, Serrano is a unified world champion, one knockout from an all-time record, and under contract for the rest of her career. Whatever she does next, the case is closed on the part that mattered most to her: she made women's boxing something that fills Madison Square Garden and stops 50 million households on a Friday night. The Boricua flag she carries to the ring is the same one she carried when almost nobody was watching.

Seniesa Estrada: Undefeated, Undisputed, and Out On Her Own Terms

Seniesa "Super Bad" Estrada was born June 26, 1992, in East Los Angeles to a Mexican family and started boxing at eight years old.

She won the WBA minimum weight title in March 2021, added the WBC and Ring belts in March 2023, and on March 29, 2024, took the IBF and WBO titles to become the undisputed female minimumweight champion of the world.

On October 23, 2024, at 32, she retired undefeated at 26–0 with 9 knockouts. She cited the physical and mental toll the sport demands, and she has not returned to the ring since.

"We accomplished everything we imagined, and even more, as a woman in a sport traditionally dominated by men… It has been an incredible experience. I hope my fighting style is something people will always remember." — Seniesa Estrada

What Comes Next for Latina Boxers

The next two years run toward one destination: the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, in front of one of the largest Latino populations in the country. Lozano and Pérez both need ranking points from World Boxing Cup events through 2027 to get there. Serrano is still fighting at 37, one knockout from an all-time record. Estrada is already a template a fighter who left on top, undefeated, on her own schedule.

What connects all five is not a belt count. It is that each of them was told, in some form, that this was not a place for her. Each of them answered the same way by staying in the ring long enough to change who gets to stand in it.

Frequently asked questions about Latina boxers

Who is the most successful Latina boxer of all time?

Amanda Serrano, of Puerto Rico. She holds the Guinness World Record for the most world championships won in different weight classes by a female boxer — nine titles across seven divisions — with a professional record of 50–4–1 and 32 knockouts as of August 2026.

How many world titles does Amanda Serrano have?

Nine major world titles in seven different weight divisions, a Guinness World Record. She currently holds the unified WBA and WBO featherweight championships.

Has Amanda Serrano ever beaten Katie Taylor?

No. Serrano and Taylor fought three times — April 2022, November 2024 and July 2025 — and Taylor won all three, by split, unanimous and majority decision. The first of those was the first women's fight to headline Madison Square Garden, and the second drew roughly 50 million households on Netflix.

Did Seniesa Estrada retire from boxing?

Yes. Estrada announced her retirement on October 23, 2024, at age 32, finishing undefeated at 26–0 with 9 knockouts as the undisputed female minimum weight world champion. She has not fought since.

Which Latina boxers could compete at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics?

Jennifer Lozano (51 kg) and Yoseline Pérez (54 kg) are the two strongest Latina contenders on the U.S. amateur team. Lozano won Copa América gold in May 2026; Pérez won World Championship silver in September 2025. Both need qualifying ranking points from World Boxing Cup events through 2027.

When did women's boxing become an Olympic sport?

Women's boxing became an official Olympic sport at the 2012 London Games. It had appeared only as a demonstration and exhibition at the 1904 St. Louis Olympics, 108 years earlier.

Who was the first Latina professional boxer in Indiana?

Suzana Rodríguez Griffin, who turned professional in 2024 after a decorated amateur career that included the 2009 Women's National Golden Gloves championship. She owns SRG Boxing n Personal Training in Indianapolis and founded La Jefa Promotions.