Photos: Katie Taylor, Amanda Serrano showcase skills at open workout

Kicking off battle week for his or her trilogy bout, Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano showcased their expertise at an open exercise at Oculus World Commerce Middle in New York. The 2 fighters meet for the third time on July 11, battling it out in the principle occasion stay on Netflix, from Madison Sq. Backyard in New York.

Eire’s two-division undisputed champion Taylor (24-1, 6 KOs) places her tremendous light-weight title on the road and appears to attain her third win over Serrano (47-3-1, 31 KOs). The latter – the seven-weight champion from Puerto Rico – goals to take revenge for 2 earlier defeats and grow to be the undisputed champion in her second weight class.

The open exercise on Tuesday additionally noticed different fighters battling it out on the evening. The co-main occasion options Alycia Baumgardner (15-1, 7 KOs) of Fremont, Ohio, defending her undisputed tremendous featherweight title towards Jennifer Miranda (12-0, 1 KO) of Spain.

On the undercard, IBF tremendous middleweight champion Savannah Marshall (13-1, 10 KOs) of the UK and WBO champion Shadasia Inexperienced (15-1, 11 KOs) of Patterson, NJ meet in a championship unification. One other title unification pits unified IBF and WBO tremendous bantamweight champion Ellie Scotney (10-0) of England towards WBC champion Yamileth Mercado (24-3, 5 KOs) of Mexico.

WBA bantamweight champion Cherneka Johnson (17-2, 6 KOs) of New Zealand and IBF champion Shurretta Metcalf (14-4-1, 2 KOs) of Dallas, TX conflict for the undisputed title, with the vacant WBC and WBO belts additionally at stake.

On the prelims, Somalian-British former title challenger Ramla Ali (9-2, 2 KOs) goes up towards Lila Furtado (11-2, 2 KOs) of Brazil at tremendous bantamweight. Plus, Tammara Thibeault (2-0, 1 KO) of Canada and Mary Casamassa (6-0, 1 KO) of Pittsburgh, PA go head-to-head at middleweight.

Rosado bests Vazquez, Soto defeats Davis

The primary Taylor vs Serrano 3 battle week occasion additionally featured two bouts. Puerto Rico’s Krystal Rosado (7-0, 2 KOs) defeated Agustina Vazquez (4-4-2) of Argentina by unanimous determination at bantamweight. After 4 rounds, all three judges scored the battle 40-36.

Elise Soto (8-0, 7 KOs) of Puerto Rico took a cut up determination towards Pittsburgh’s Colleen Davis (4-3-1, 1 KO) at tremendous featherweight. The judges scored the four-round bout 39-37, 39-37, and 37-39.

The ultimate pre-fight press convention continues the battle week festivities on Wednesday.