Katie Taylor, left, lands a proper to Amanda Serrano throughout their undisputed tremendous light-weight title bout, Friday, Nov. 15, 2024, in Arlington, Texas.
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The rematch between Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano was as bloody and bruising as the unique. The disputed determination — and the response to it — was the identical, too.
Taylor retained her unanimous tremendous light-weight championship in a razor-thin unanimous determination over Serrano on Friday (November 15, 2024) evening in a slugfest remarkably much like their epic bout in New York two years in the past.
Taylor was scored a 95-94 winner by all three judges, drawing boos from the group on the dwelling of the NFL’s Dallas Cowboys earlier than the co-main occasion of Jake Paul and Mike Tyson.
The 38-year-old from Eire remained the undisputed champion and within the tremendous light-weight and light-weight divisions. It was the third victory because the first skilled loss for Taylor (24-1, six knockouts).
Serrano, who stored punching regardless of getting a nasty lower over her left eye within the sixth spherical, was the group favourite a lot the identical approach she was within the the disputed break up determination at Madison Sq. Backyard in 2022.
In that sold-out slugfest, they had been the primary ladies headlining a fight sports activities occasion on the storied venue. The 36-year-old Serrano, a seven-division champion, is 47-3-1 with 31 knockouts.
It might need began a little bit extra slowly than the New York assembly, however issues modified when Serrano, who’s from Puerto Rico however lives in New York, sustained the nasty lower.
The harm pressured the referee to name a timeout in the midst of the sixth spherical, and frequent closeups the remainder of the battle drew gasps from the group within the first fight sports activities telecast from the streaming platform Netflix.
Serrano by no means stopped punching, although, and appeared to have Taylor teetering within the last seconds of the bout. Taylor leaned in on Serrano repeatedly, showing to have hassle preserving herself up on her personal. She had already been deducted a degree for head-butting within the eighth spherical.
Taylor was preventing for the primary time since avenging her solely skilled loss by beating Chantelle Cameron for the undisputed tremendous light-weight title in a rematch in her dwelling nation a yr in the past.
The Taylor-Serrano battle in New York was extra a celebration of ladies’s boxing, regardless of the questions over the end result. Serrano was a little bit extra pissed off this time, questioning how honest the battle was along with her complaints of head-butts and holding because the battle progressed.
Serrano was in hassle after the sixth spherical, the ring physician asking if she may proceed because the wound was handled. She stated sure, and did not present many indicators of slowing down.
The pair traded flurries of punches many of the approach, particularly within the last spherical whereas understanding the judging could be shut.
Revealed – November 16, 2024 11:04 am IST
