Taylor def. Serrano by decision to retain title

NEW YORK -- After 60 minutes and 30 rounds spent wrong the ringing together, the trilogy betwixt Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano reached its decision with Taylor winning a bulk determination successful a acold much calculated and tentative matter than their erstwhile encounters to clasp her undisputed ace lightweight championship.

The combat capped disconnected a historical all-women's combat paper successful beforehand of an energetic sold-out assemblage astatine Madison Square Garden and streamed unrecorded connected Netflix. However, dissimilar their different 2 thrilling showdowns that were narrowly won by Taylor, this was a overmuch much subdued matter with the Irishwoman utilizing a cheque hook and flurries to instrumentality a much definitive determination with 2 scores of 97-93 and 1 justice seeing it adjacent astatine 95-95.

Taylor and Serrano's erstwhile 2 meetings were rousing encounters that Taylor won successful disputed manner but raised the illustration of women's boxing overall. Their 3rd gathering enactment a spotlight connected women's boxing with 17 satellite titles contested crossed the combat paper but didn't rather conscionable the extraordinarily precocious barroom acceptable by the archetypal 2 fights.

Taylor and Serrano's archetypal brushwood took spot April 30, 2022, astatine Madison Square Garden and had a planetary assemblage of 1.5 cardinal viewers connected Netflix. Their rematch past November arsenic the co-main lawsuit to Jake Paul's determination implicit Mike Tyson became the astir watched women's sporting lawsuit successful U.S. history, averaging 74 cardinal unrecorded viewers globally connected Netflix.

The duo had the signifier each to themselves successful New York and brought on the contiguous and aboriginal of women's boxing with them. But it was the Pride of Ireland who enactment a stamp connected the rivalry with a 3-0 sweep.

Unlike their erstwhile 2 encounters, the brace spent the archetypal 2 rounds being highly cautious earlier Serrano began to ramp up the unit successful circular 3. Taylor remained composed and picked her spots portion Serrano flashed the jab and landed the occasional combination.

Fighting retired of Ireland, Taylor (25-1, 6 KOs) opened up much successful circular 5 and caught Serrano with the close manus and prevented "The Real Deal" from cornering her by circling distant aft each flurry of punches. Taylor started timing Serrano's advances successful circular six and bounced respective combinations disconnected her opponent's skull whenever she sought to advance. Although persistent, Serrano's refusal to fto her hands spell yet became her undoing.

By the aboriginal rounds, Taylor was comfy with the gait and stiffed Serrano (47-4-1, 31 KOs) with flurries and utilized a cheque hook to support the Puerto Rican from charging in.

Fighting retired of Carolina, Puerto Rico, Serrano simply didn't look similar herself and lone came to beingness successful the last circular with the determination good successful hand.

With the win, the astir important rivalry successful women's boxing has travel to a adjacent and the aboriginal for some fighters is undecided. Even though the last section didn't scope the heights of their erstwhile 2 encounters, Taylor and Serrano undoubtedly enactment women's boxing connected a pedestal that it hadn't been connected before.

In the co-main event, Alycia Baumgardner (16-1, 7 KOs 1 No Contest) retained her undisputed ace featherweight title with a unanimous determination implicit the antecedently undefeated Jennifer Miranda (12-1). "The Bomb" retained with scores of 98-92, 98-92 and 97-93.

It was a cat-and-mouse matter aboriginal with Baumgardner utilizing her jab and trying to acceptable traps to onshore her vaunted close hand. But Miranda was omniscient to the crippled program and landed respective antagonistic close hands to prime disconnected the champion's advances.

However, Miranda simply wasn't engaged capable to and allowed Baumgardner to commencement and extremity 1 excessively galore exchanges.

Baumgardner ended a agelong layoff with a triumph and said successful her post-fight interrogation that she was rusty and wants to get backmost successful arsenic soon arsenic possible. With Jake Paul anointing her arsenic the aboriginal of Most Valuable Promotions chances are they'll support her arsenic busy.