By: Sean Crose
Writing for Boxing Insider, I named it 2022’s battle of the 12 months. 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 finest within the enterprise. Throw within the undisputed girls’s light-weight title, and a extremely rated stay ESPN broadcast from a offered out Madison Sq. Backyard and also you had all of the makings of a basic.” The battle had been so thrilling and shut that, though Taylor squeaked by with a call win, that win might 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 night time 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 12 months previous Tyson – but neither girl is younger in boxing years, both.
Nonetheless, this battle is certainly a should see occasion for followers. “I believe our types combine very effectively,” Taylor says of her arch rival (through The Guardian). “She is clearly an incredible 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 night time. I’m simply excited to go in there and carry out as a result of I believe my finest 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 one of the best is but to come back. “Girls’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 efficient place proper now. If Taylor-Serrano 2 is even near as entertaining as their first bout, issues will proceed trying shiny for ladies who have interaction within the candy science. Maybe significantly so.
*Photograph: Matchroom
