Seniesa Estrada and Yokasta Valle will co-main event in a Top Rank card on March 29 that will see non-titlists Oscar Valdez and Liam Wilson headline as the main event. The show will be hosted at the Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Arizona, and will signal the Estrada-Valle match becoming the first ever women’s minimumweight undisputed bout to occur in the sport.
It is unknown why Top Rank chose to put Mexican contender Oscar Valdez (31-2, 23 KO’s) and Australian fighter Liam Wilson (13-2, 7 KO’s) as the headliners as opposed to Seniesa Estrada (25-0, 9 KO’s) and Yokasta Valle (30-2, 9 KO’s). The twelve-round super featherweight/junior lightweight match between Valdez and Wilson will not involve any titles, and neither has the fight been confirmed to be an elimination or mandatory match.
Despite the questionable matchmaking, Estrada and Valle are set to make history; regardless of who ends up as the winner as there has never been a women’s minimumweight (mini-flyweight) undisputed match in any era since the division was created in the sport.
The match-up between the two female minimumweights will see two unified champions with an equal amount of belts enter the ring. Seniesa Estrada currently reigns as the WBA and WBC minimumweight champion while Yokasta Valle holds the WBO and IBF titles.
Valle, 31, will likely be considered the underdog due to being the away fighter as she hails from Costa Rica while Estrada, also 31, will be fighting in her home country and will likely enjoy a home base advantage due to this. Estrada is also still undefeated, but there remains a risk in her losing her zero to Valle who has not lost a match since losing by unanimous decision to German contender Tina Rupprecht (13-1-1, 3 KO’s)―who had been a world champion until losing to Estrada last year; culminating in her WBC minimumweight title switching hands to Estrada.
The March 29 fight card will further feature American heavyweight prospect Richard Torrez Jr. (8-0, 8 KO’s) aiming to maintain his 100% knockout ratio against unknown countryman Donald Haynesworth (18-8-1, 16 KO’s), while American lightweight contender Raymond Muratalla (19-0, 16 KO’s) is set to stay busy against the unranked (by the sanctioning bodies) Argentinian contender Agustin Ezequiel Quintana (19-2-1, 13 KO’s).
