Seniesa Estrada has a significantly different perspective than Yokasta Valle on their long-awaited grudge match.

All the strawweight belts will be on the line for the first time—male or female—in boxing history when the pair of unified titlists meet on March 29 on ESPN+ from Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Arizona. The two have been circling one another for years, with plenty of words exchanged but little movement made until earlier this year.

Costa Rica’s Valle (30-2, 9KOs) claims it’s just a fight to her, and that Estrada happens to have something she wants—the lineal, WBA and WBC titles to pair with her IBF and WBO belts.

The fight cuts much deeper for the other side of the equation.

“It’s not personal for her but it’s personal for me for many reasons,” Estrada admitted during the kickoff press conference Wednesday afternoon at Michelob ULTRA Arena in Las Vegas. I’m competitive and hungry to become undisputed.

“This is the fight I’ve been trying to make and wanting to make since I was with Golden Boy Promotions around the time they first signed me. I wanted to make this fight happen because I wanted to become undisputed. I’m just excited and fucking hungry to become undisputed. I can’t wait for March 29th.”

Estrada (25-0, 9KOs) pushed for the fight during much of the four years she was promoted by Golden Boy Promotions. She eventually parted ways with the company, a bitter letdown since she previously considered it an honor to fight under the banner co-founded by Hall of Fame former six-division champ Oscar De La Hoya, a fellow East Los Angeles native. Valle signed with Golden Boy in 2022, shortly after Estrada severed ties with the company and subsequently entered a multi-fight agreement with Top Rank.  

The two have traded plenty of words in the past few years, more so once Estrada won the WBA strawweight title in March 2021 and again after her WBC title-winning shutout over Tina Rupprecht last March. Both have been vocal about the fight, though Estrada has a different recollection—and the receipts to prove it—on why it hasn’t happened until now.

“Valle always said in interviews that I was ducking, that I was running from here which is completely false,” insisted Estrada. “There’s never been any effort from her side to make the fight happen. It’s always been from my side, from the beginning.

“I told Golden Boy Promotions about (Valle). That's how they knew about her. I wanted it from the start. Never ducking.”

Jake Donovan is a senior writer for BoxingScene.com. X (formerly Twitter): @JakeNDaBox