Stephanie Han’s Holly Holm fight card in El Paso did more than fill a Saturday night. Most Valuable Promotions said the -televised show set the highest gate ever recorded at the El Paso County Coliseum, turning a women’s world-title card into the venue’s biggest combat sports night.
The fights began at 7 p.m. MT, with Han defending her WBA lightweight title against Holm atop a card built around four female world championship bouts. Amanda Serrano also fought Cheyenne Hanson in a featherweight title bout, giving the show a depth that matched the headline attraction and made the record gate feel less like a one-off and more like a sign of where the sport is going right now.
MVP said Saturday was its first promotion in El Paso, and the timing mattered because the card was framed as a landmark for women’s boxing as soon as it was announced. The company’s co-founders, Jake Paul and Nakisa Bidarian, called the record gate a powerful statement about how far women’s boxing has come and said the event is now the highest-grossing combat sports show ever held at the Coliseum. They also pointed to the local crowd, saying the night belonged not just to the promotion but to El Paso fight fans who had backed it from the start.
That claim lands differently in a building whose reputation was built largely on men who became boxing legends. The El Paso County Coliseum has hosted a young George Foreman, Salvador Sánchez, Erik Morales and Sugar Shane Mosley across different eras, and those names still hang over the arena’s history. That is what made the record striking: a card headlined by Han and Holm, with Serrano and Hanson on the same bill, reached a gate no other combat sports event in the building had matched.
What no one has said yet is how much money the show actually brought in. MVP said only that it generated the highest gate in the Coliseum’s history, leaving the exact figure unreleased for now. If the company follows with a full breakdown, it will show whether the record was a narrow win or a clear break from the venue’s past. Either way, the number already released tells the story: women’s boxing did in one night what El Paso’s old fight lore had taken decades to build.
