By: Sean Crose
Writing for Boxing Insider, I named it 2022’s battle of the yr. For Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano had placed on a present for the ages. “Talyor-Serrano wasn’t only a backwards and forwards affair,” I wrote on the time, “it was a seesaw battle the place the combatants had been among the many greatest within the enterprise. Throw within the undisputed girls’s light-weight title, and a extremely rated dwell ESPN broadcast from a offered out Madison Sq. Backyard and also you had all of the makings of a traditional.” The battle had been so thrilling and shut that, though Taylor squeaked by with a choice win, that win may have simply been offered to Serra.
“Sadly,” I wrote on the finish of the article, “a rematch has but to be made. Maybe one by no means will.” Two and a half years later, the hoped for rematch is sort of right here. For the now 23-1 Taylor and the 57-2-1 Serrano can be squaring off for the second time Friday evening on the undercard of the Mike Tyson-Jake Paul novelty bout. The scheduled ten rounder can be for Taylor’s WBC, WBO and IBF junior welterweight titles and can go down at AT&T stadium. Taylor can be 38 on the sound of the opening bell, Serrano, 36. Neither girl is shut in age of the 58 yr previous Tyson – but neither girl is younger in boxing years, both.
Nonetheless, this battle is certainly a should see occasion for followers. “I feel our kinds combine very nicely,” Taylor says of her arch rival (through The Guardian). “She is clearly an excellent fighter. I like to field however I do get drawn right into a battle like this one. Each our mentalities are that we’re going to do no matter it takes to win the battle so it’s going to be one other explosive evening. I’m simply excited to go in there and carry out as a result of I feel my greatest will beat Serrano’s .”
Whereas it’s true each Taylor and Serrano are on the forefront of girls’s boxing, Serrano signifies (through the BBC) that the perfect is but to come back. “Ladies’s boxing is getting higher and it’s solely going to go up from right here,” the favored American claims. “I simply hope their pay checks get higher, identical to mine and Katie’s.” There’s no denying that girls’s boxing is an effective place proper now. If Taylor-Serrano 2 is even near as entertaining as their first bout, issues will proceed trying vibrant for ladies who interact within the candy science. Maybe significantly so.
*Picture: Matchroom
