A was all the time anticipated, however the true combat, the nice combat of the evening final evening, was supplied by the 2 feminine warriors going at it. And the return battle between Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano didn’t disappoint. After ten, at occasions savage, bloody rounds, 140-pound ruler Taylor edged Serrano by scores of 95-94 throughout the board. 38-year-old Taylor of Eire needed to combat by some hellish moments, whereas 36-year-old Serrano of Puerto Rico needed to combat by a ugly lower above her proper eye.
The blood coated southpaw Serrano’s face, and within the sixth spherical of the combat, the physician trying on the damage, it appeared the bout must be stopped. As a substitute, these two fashionable greats placed on a second modern-day basic as they raged to the ultimate bell. Each girls felt that they had received ultimately, whereas Serrano accused Taylor of preventing soiled and utilizing unlawful headbutts on goal.
The primary head conflict got here in spherical 4, and Serrano was left with a nasty gash above her proper eye, whereas Taylor was docked some extent for a butt in spherical eight. Each warriors went for the KO, Serrano, however her imaginative and prescient was severely hampered. Each ladies slugged it out to the bell.
Taylor denied preventing soiled and she or he mentioned the trilogy combat is “on.”
“Thank God I received that combat. Congratulations to Amanda. The trilogy is on,” a victorious Taylor mentioned. “She’s a tough puncher and a tricky warrior. I don’t care if the commentary workforce or the gang disagrees with the end result. The one factor that issues is the judges.”
Serrano was fuming concerning the butts, with the previous multi-weight champ saying they had been, in her opinion, deliberate.
“She stored headbutting me, and that’s one thing she has completed earlier than,” Serrano mentioned. “I feel 100% (the butts had been on goal). It’s not the primary time. She did it to me, she did it to (Chantelle) Cameron. It’s what it’s. I’m a champion.”
Each girls are champions, and that third combat will likely be one scorching ticket. There have been two nice fights, each razor-thin on the playing cards on the finish, and each had a component of controversy, particularly in final evening’s combat.
It appears that evidently if Taylor and Serrano had been to combat ten occasions we might by no means have a clear-cut consequence that everybody can agree with. Simply who’s the superior fighter out of those two? And when will that third combat occur?
