The ESPN-televised boxing show in El Paso, featuring El Paso’s Stephanie Han vs. Albuquerque’s Holly Holm for Han’s WBA lightweight title, is helping to break records.
The Most Valuable Promotions card announced Saturday morning that the fight card, which has four female world championship fights at the El Paso County Coliseum, has generated the highest gate for a combat sports event in the venue’s history.
Saturday’s fight card is MVP’s first promotion in El Paso. Tonight’s fights begin at 7 p.m. MT on ESPN and also feature a featherweight title fight between Puerto Rico’s Amanda Serrano and Germany’s Cheyenne Hanson.
The MVPW-03 show joins a storied lineage of historic combat sports events at the El Paso County Coliseum, including a young George Foreman’s 1971 TKO victory over Vic Scott early in his professional career, Hall of Famer Salvador Sánchez’s legendary 1980 WBC featherweight title defense against Juan Laporte and Erik Morales’ first WBC junior featherweight world title victory over Daniel Zaragoza in 1997, a landmark card that featured future boxing icon Floyd Mayweather Jr. early in his professional career. The venue also hosted Sugar Shane Mosley’s IBF lightweight title defense later that same year, helping cement the Coliseum’s reputation as one of the Southwest’s most historic combat sports venues.
Additionally, the Coliseum hosted AEW Dynamite in February 2023, bringing nationally televised professional wrestling back to El Paso, featuring many of the sport’s biggest stars. The venue also welcomed TNA Sacrifice 2025 and TNA Final Resolution 2025, along with many of the region’s leading boxing and mixed martial arts promotions, further cementing its reputation as one of the premier combat sports venues along the U.S.-Mexico border.
“This is a historic moment not only for Most Valuable Promotions, but for El Paso and the local fight fans who have supported this event from day one,” said Jake Paul and Nakisa Bidarian, co-founders of MVP. “The El Paso County Coliseum has hosted some of the most important names in boxing history, from a young George Foreman and Hall of Famer Salvador Sánchez, to Erik Morales and Sugar Shane Mosley, and later Floyd Mayweather Jr. For MVPW-03 to set a record gate in a venue with this kind of history is a powerful statement about how far women’s boxing has come. Amanda Serrano, Holly Holm, Stephanie Han, and the extraordinary champions featured on this card have accomplished something unprecedented, and we are proud to deliver what is now the highest-grossing combat sports event ever held at this iconic venue.”
Felix F. Chavez can be reached at fchavez@elpasotimes.com; @Fchavezeptimes on X
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