(SEPT 3) ANBF Australasian Super Flyweight champion Holly McMath (Waikato Tainui/Ngāti Māhanga) will be going for her next Australasian title in October in possibly her retirement fight.

Mother of two, Holly McMath (4 - 3 - 0) has booked her next ticket to fight in Sydney, NSW, Australia, where she will take on Mai Soliman for the vacant MASA Australasian Super Flyweight title on 20 October with Neutral Corner promotions. However, this may be the final fight of her boxing career.

McMath recently won her version of the Australasian title when she defeated the former NSW State champion Sarah Watt last month in Auckland by unanimous decision. She became the third New Zealand female to win the ANBF Australasian title, behind Lani Daniels and Tania Reid.

McMath has a significant amateur boxing background, winning the New Zealand National Amateur Boxing Championships twice in her amateur career (2018, 2021), and has multiple victories over 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games bronze medalist Tasmyn Benny. Outside of boxing, McMath competed in multiple Muay Thai and Kickboxing bouts to keep active in combat sports.

In 2020, McMath made her professional boxing debut, taking on Elli Bliss Reynolds. She would return to professional boxing in 2022 when she took on 2-time world title contender Michelle Preston and current WIBA World Champion Jasmine Parr. From these first three fights of her pro career, they were all incredibly close fights, with two of them arguably should have gone the other way.

In December 2022, McMath began her win streak when she defeated Sarah Linton, Lorraine Robson in March, Emma Nesbitt in June, and Sarah Watt last month. McMath now starting to have bigger international fights. However, this could be the last fight of her career.

She will be taking on Egypt-born Australian boxer Mai Soliman. Solimon is the current MASA Australasian Bantamweight champion. She made her professional boxing debut in July 2022 when she defeated Ali Jensen. Solimon has only lost one professional loss in her career, against Bec Moss for the ANBF Australasian Flyweight title.

Solimon had had two decent wins in her last fight when she defeated former WBA Oceania champion Sarah Higginson by stoppage. In her last fight, she defeated New Zealand-born boxer Nicila Costello for the MASA Australasian Bantamweight title. This fight is known for the first women's professional boxing fight in the southern hemisphere to compete over 3-minute rounds.

Holly McMath vs. Mai Soliman for the vacant MASA Australasian Super Flyweight title will happen on 20th October with Neutral Corner promotions in Sydney, NSW, Australia. It is unknown now if the event will be live-streamed online. If the event is live-streamed, use the link provided by the boxing promoter and not people in the comments section to avoid scams.

McMath boxes out of Mayhem Boxing under Terry Batchelor. The same boxing team that trains former WBO World Light Heavyweight Champion Geovana Peres, 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games Bronze Medalist Troy Garton and 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games Bronze Medalist Uila Mau'u.

McMath is of Maori descent on her farther side from Raglan with Waikato Tainui and Ngāti Māhanga.

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