By: Sean Crose
The primary struggle 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 ladies’s struggle – it was an incredible struggle, interval. There’s good motive why the ten spherical battle is Boxing Insider’s 2024 Battle Of The 12 months. Some fights ebb and circulate. Taylor-Serrano 2 was relentless. Watching the 2 future Corridor of Famers commerce blows, it was onerous to disclaim that this was a struggle which might be remembered for a very long time. The ending was controversial, however there was no denying this had been certainly one of boxing’s true gems of 2024.
The fact is that Taylor-Serrano 2 ought to have been the highest struggle on the cardboard that went down in Arlington, Texas in November of this previous yr. Sadly, nonetheless, 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 struggle is the truth that Tyson emerged unharmed. One other respectable bit of reports is over seventy million folks tuned in to observe Taylor and Serrano get it on for the second time that night.
The bout itself was basically pure motion from the opening bell on. Taylor obtained tagged late within the first as each ladies fired away at full pace. By the fourth Serrano had a large lower on her head. The gash turned such a problem that the referee stopped the struggle within the sixth so the ring physician might make certain all was effectively with Serrano. All was certainly effectively for the gutsy New Yorker – or no less than in addition to may very well be anticipated for somebody within the warmth of gloved fight – and so the struggle resumed.
Issues turned so ferocious within the seventh that Boxing Insider wrote the next: “The seventh was ferocious…as in Hagler-Hearns first spherical ferocious.” Other than Taylor being deducted some extent for head butting the eighth, the rest of the struggle remained as intense, high-octane and albeit thrilling because it had been as much as that time. In the end, Taylor held on to her quite a few junior welterweight titles because of the choice of the judges, a call that many – this writer included – felt ought to have gone to Serrano.
Controversial choice or not, there’s merely no query that Taylor and Serrano not solely stole the present that night, however placed on one of the best struggle of 2024, as effectively.
