Katie Taylor has retained her undisputed light-weight championship with a split-decision victory over Amanda Serrano in a wildly entertaining back-and-forth scrap at Madison Sq. Backyard.
Two of the ringside judges scored it 96-93 and 97-93 for Taylor whereas a 3rd had it 96-64 for Serrano, an final result that each one however ensures a rematch.
Taylor relied on her superior hand and foot pace to open an early lead whereas preventing on the again foot, however was practically stopped within the fifth spherical when Serrano’s regular stress lastly broke by.
However the 2012 Olympic gold medalist was capable of finding her method again into the combat when Serrano briefly took her foot off the gasoline. By the tenth and ultimate spherical, it was Taylor who was shockingly in full command, letting her fingers go within the middle of the ring whereas improbably battering Serrano with blows amid the deafening roars of the sold-out crowd of 19,187 at Madison Sq. Backyard.
The hotly anticipated assembly between the world’s two finest feminine boxers no matter weight was the primary summit assembly between the consensus No 1 and No 2 on the lads’s or girls’s pound-for-pound listing because the second combat between Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez in 2008.
Taylor and Serrano grew to become the primary feminine fighters to headline a invoice on the Backyard and the primary girls to make properly over $1m every from a single bout. The top quality of Saturday’s encounter virtually ensures they gained be the final.
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