By: Sean Crose
The primary combat was terrific. The second was even higher. Make no mistake about it Katie Taylor’s blistering rematch with Amanda Serrano this previous November was greater than only a nice girls’s combat – it was an incredible combat, interval. There’s good motive why the ten spherical battle is Boxing Insider’s 2024 Struggle Of The 12 months. Some fights ebb and move. Taylor-Serrano 2 was relentless. Watching the 2 future Corridor of Famers commerce blows, it was laborious to disclaim that this was a combat which might be remembered for a very long time. The ending was controversial, however there was no denying this had been considered one of boxing’s true gems of 2024.
The truth is that Taylor-Serrano 2 ought to have been the highest combat on the cardboard that went down in Arlington, Texas in November of this previous 12 months. Sadly, nevertheless, Taylor-Serrano 2 was the co-main occasion of a card that featured the infamous Mike Tyson-Jake Paul throwdown. That bout, as everybody who noticed or had entry to study is aware of, was a catastrophe. The one good factor to say about such a harmful novelty combat is the truth that Tyson emerged unharmed. One other first rate bit of stories is over seventy million individuals tuned in to observe Taylor and Serrano get it on for the second time that night.
The bout itself was primarily pure motion from the opening bell on. Taylor obtained tagged late within the first as each girls fired away at full pace. By the fourth Serrano had an enormous reduce on her head. The gash grew to become such a problem that the referee stopped the combat within the sixth so the ring physician might be sure that all was nicely with Serrano. All was certainly nicely for the gutsy New Yorker – or not less than in addition to could possibly be anticipated for somebody within the warmth of gloved fight – and so the combat resumed.
Issues grew to become so ferocious within the seventh that Boxing Insider wrote the next: “The seventh was ferocious…as in Hagler-Hearns first spherical ferocious.” Except for Taylor being deducted a degree for head butting the eighth, the rest of the combat remained as intense, high-octane and admittedly thrilling because it had been as much as that time. In the end, Taylor held on to her quite a few junior welterweight titles due to the choice of the judges, a choice that many – this writer included – felt ought to have gone to Serrano.
Controversial choice or not, there may be merely no query that Taylor and Serrano not solely stole the present that night, however placed on one of the best combat of 2024, as nicely.
