The Lades enter the ring this weekend for another huge championship bout as Cindy “Checkmate” Serrano vs. Anne Sophie Mathis will be one of the biggest matches in a long time.All of the latest odds and boxing betting props for this game can be found at online sportsbook BetPhoenix.

Brooklyn-based Cindy “Checkmate” Serrano (15-3-2, 7 KOs) had her first shot at a world championship in 2005 when she fought to a draw with Rhonda Luna for the vacant WIBA Featherweight crown. Almost six years later she will get a second chance, as she travels to France to take on hard-punching reigning World Boxing Federation (WBF) Women’s Welterweight World Champion Anne Sophie Mathis (24-1, 21 KOs) on October 1.

That December night back in 2005 at the Turning Stone Casino in Verona, New York, Serrano’s 16 year old younger sister Amanda was sitting at ringside. Amanda since started her own boxing career, and became a world champion earlier this month when she won the IBF Super Featherweight title.

While happy for her sibling’s success, Cindy obviously doesn’t want to take a backseat to her kid sister. With that in mind, Serrano has worked vigorously with trainer Jordan Maldonado at Glendale Boxing Club in Queens, N.Y., and believes they have come up with the right strategy to beat Mathis, even in the champion’s home country.

However, it will be a very tough assignment for the 29-year-old Puerto Rican-American. Anne Sophie Mathis has only tasted defeat once as a professional, and that was almost six years ago and in her second bout. In 1995 Mathis was overwhelmed by the more experienced and undefeated Marischa Sjauw, who later went on to win multiple world titles.

Eleven victories later Mathis won the WBA World Light Welterweight title, along with the EBU European crown, in an all-French super-fight against current WBF World Light Welterweight champ Myriam Lamare, stopping her then undefeated countryman in seven rounds. Six months later she beat Lamare again in a rematch, this time by a close majority decision in a defense of the WBA belt.

Against Serrano, Mathis will be making her first WBF World title defense, and at 34 years of age she is fighting better than ever and appears to have many years as champion left in her. Cindy Serrano is however coming to cut her reign short, become her family’s second world champion, and ruin plans for a welterweight super-fight that Mathis has lined up against Holly Holm in the USA in December.

This fight will be one for the ages and if you have yet to see these two in action, now is the time. Check out the latest boxing betting odds at BetPhoenix and bet on this fight this weekend!