By: Sean Crose
After two basic battles, Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano will do battle as soon as once more this July eleventh at Madison Sq. Backyard. This bout isn’t only a huge deal as a result of it options two of the very best ladies’s boxers on earth. It’s additionally going to be broadcast dwell on Netflix, which is nothing however excellent news for the combat followers in addition to for the game, which wants huge fights that don’t price viewers a fortune to observe dwell. Now phrase comes round that your entire card will formally consist of girls’s fights. If it isn’t a primary, it’s the primary time such a card has been offered on as huge a stage as this.
“The cardboard options an unprecedented degree of worldwide expertise, together with three of the highest 4 and 5 of the highest ten,” promoter Jake Paul and Nakisa Bidarian said, by way of ESPN. “That’s like having Canelo, Gervonta, Crawford, Inoue and Usyk on the identical card – properly now we have it for the ladies and it’s going to be unbelievable. With 5 world title fights — three unified and two undisputed — Friday, July 11 won’t solely be a defining evening for MVP because the chief in ladies’s boxing, however a pivotal second for the game as a complete.”
Give the brash Paul this – he is aware of the way to placed on an occasion. And July eleventh can be no exception. Count on Madison Sq. Backyard to be offered out simply attributable to the truth that Taylor and Serrano are magnificent arch rivals (their earlier fights have been so good they’re merely thought-about nice by any customary, male or feminine). The loaded undercard definitely isn’t going to dampen the occasion’s enchantment, although. In actual fact, there can be well-known fighters throwing down within the leadup to the primary occasion.
Alycia Baumgardner, as an illustration, can be taking over the undefeated Jennifer Miranda. Likewise, Savannah Marshall can be going through Shadasia Inexperienced. Like Taylor-Serrano, the Baumgardner and Marshall bouts will function undisputed phrase titlists. There’s no denying this can be an enormous evening of boxing. And if any of the fights are as thrilling as the primary two Taylor-Serrano matches have been, it will likely be a memorable evening of boxing, as properly. That is unquestionably a golden age for ladies’s boxing. One can solely hope the following breed of girls fighters dwell as much as the usual’s set by Taylor, Serrano and others. We should always take pleasure in what now we have whereas now we have it.
