Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano met once more within the featured undercard bout of Friday’s fundamental occasion between Mike Tyson and Jake Paul. Identical to their first assembly, arguably the best ladies’s boxing struggle of all-time, Taylor escaped with a controversial resolution victory, and with the good thing about a number of headbutts that opened a nasty minimize over Serrano’s eye.
Serrano landed a large left hook late within the first spherical and had Taylor badly harm. Taylor was saved by the bell, a advantage of most girls’s fights being contested with two-minute, relatively than three-minute, rounds. After the bell, Taylor’s nook implored her to make the struggle a boxing match relatively than the sort of struggle Serrano most popular.
Taylor was blissful to try to sluggish Serrano’s method by doing simply that, shifting across the ring and searching for alternatives to unleash fast mixtures. It wasn’t Taylor’s punches that had the largest impact on the struggle, nevertheless, it was her cranium.
Taylor related with a tough headbutt in Spherical 4, opening a minimize above Serrano’s proper eye. Taylor’s head would join with the identical space a number of instances, opening the minimize wider and forcing the referee to have the physician confirm that Serrano was alright to proceed combating.
CBS Sports activities will even have dwell protection of the struggle with round-by-round scoring and blow-by-blow updates to maintain you updated all through the night time.
Regardless of the harm, which was producing a gentle stream of blood, Serrano continued to stroll ahead, stalking Taylor and forcing her into heavy exchanges.
Taylor lands monster hit on Serrano within the sixth spherical. #TaylorSerrano #PaulTyson pic.twitter.com/CuRy65vWnf
— Netflix (@netflix) November 16, 2024
By Spherical 7, the exchanges had been coming quick and livid with each ladies having success at numerous moments, paying homage to their first assembly.
Taylor would land one other headbutt in Spherical 8, drawing one other warning from the referee, however Serrano fought on. One other headbutt landed earlier than the spherical closed and the referee stepped in to take some extent from Taylor.
Spherical 10 wasn’t a lot totally different than the remainder of the struggle, with each ladies unloading all the pieces till the ultimate bell.
After the conclusion of 10 rounds, all three judges noticed the struggle 95-94 for Taylor as she took her second consecutive controversial resolution over Serrano.
10 full rounds all the way down to the final second. KATIE TAYLOR VS AMANDA SERRANO WAS CRAZY. #TaylorSerrano #PaulTyson pic.twitter.com/c2VSuoPsiX
— Netflix (@netflix) November 16, 2024
The gang booed as Taylor was interviewed following the choice.
“It is clearly very exhausting however I knew it was an absolute slugfest in there. An absolute battle,” Taylor mentioned. “We skilled so exhausting … any punch can change a struggle in boxing, she’s a tough puncher and absolute warrior. I do not care if the commentary crew or crowd disagree with the outcome.”
Serrano took the loss with grace however was not hesitant in claiming Taylor fought soiled — and has all through her profession.
“I do know the judges had been going to be just a little bit shady,” Serrano mentioned. “I went up three divisions and dared to be nice tonight. I am the featherweight champion of the world and need to be nice. I am a featherweight, man. Each time you get a minimize, it bothers you. Not solely my struggle, she did it with Chantelle Cameron. I feel 100% [they were intentional], she does it each struggle. My first ever minimize was towards Katie Taylor.”
In the primary occasion, the 27-year-old Jake Paul boxed circles across the 58-year-old Mike Tyson and appeared to hold him to the end line as an alternative of go for the end. Whereas there was tons of intrigue into what Tyson would seem like at this superior age towards a relative novice compared, the struggle was by no means actually near delivering on fan expectations. That was thanks partly to the bigger gloves and shorter rounds. In the long run, Paul earned a unanimous resolution by a large margin on all three scorecards.
