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Andreas HaleJul 11, 2025, 07:52 PM ET
- Andreas Hale is simply a combat sports newsman astatine ESPN. Andreas covers MMA, boxing and pro wrestling. In Andreas' escaped time, helium plays video games, obsesses implicit euphony and is simply a White Sox and 49ers fan. He is besides a big for Sirius XM's Fight Nation. Before joining ESPN, Andreas was a elder writer astatine DAZN and Sporting News. He started his vocation arsenic a euphony writer for outlets including HipHopDX, The Grammys and Jay-Z's Life+Times. He is besides an NAACP Image Award-nominated filmmaker arsenic a shaper for the animated abbreviated movie "Bridges" successful 2024.
Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano volition conscionable for the 3rd clip connected Friday, with Taylor's undisputed inferior welterweight title connected the line.
The trilogy combat headlines an all-women paper astatine New York's Madison Square Garden (Netflix, 8 p.m. ET) that includes 5 satellite rubric fights.
Taylor (24-1, 6 KOs) defeated Serrano by unanimous determination successful November (95-94, 95-94 and 95-94) connected the Mike Tyson vs. Jake Paul undercard astatine AT&T Stadium successful Arlington, Texas. Serrano suffered a large chopped implicit her close oculus successful the 4th circular owed to an unintentional clash of heads, and Taylor was deducted a constituent successful Round 8 by referee Jon Schorle for headbutting.
In that rematch, Serrano acceptable a CompuBox record by landing 324 punches, the astir successful a 10-round women's fight.
Their archetypal combat successful April 2022 was besides close, with Taylor edging Serrano by divided decision (97-93, 96-93 and 94-96).
This clip around, Serrano is simply a flimsy favourite astatine -175 per ESPN BET.
Stay present for updates, results and round-by-round investigation from New York.
