By: Sean Crose
Writing for Boxing Insider, I named it 2022’s combat of the 12 months. For Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano had placed on a present for the ages. “Talyor-Serrano wasn’t only a forwards and backwards affair,” I wrote on the time, “it was a seesaw battle the place the combatants had been among the many greatest within the enterprise. Throw within the undisputed ladies’s light-weight title, and a extremely rated reside ESPN broadcast from a offered out Madison Sq. Backyard and also you had all of the makings of a traditional.” The battle had been so thrilling and shut that, though Taylor squeaked by with a choice win, that win may 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 nearly right here. For the now 23-1 Taylor and the 57-2-1 Serrano will likely 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 will likely be for Taylor’s WBC, WBO and IBF junior welterweight titles and can go down at AT&T stadium. Taylor will likely be 38 on the sound of the opening bell, Serrano, 36. Neither lady is shut in age of the 58 12 months previous Tyson – but neither lady is younger in boxing years, both.
Nonetheless, this combat is certainly a should see occasion for followers. “I feel our kinds combine very effectively,” Taylor says of her arch rival (through The Guardian). “She is clearly an amazing fighter. I like to field however I do get drawn right into a combat like this one. Each our mentalities are that we’re going to do no matter it takes to win the combat 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 feel my greatest 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 the very 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 ladies’s boxing is an effective place proper now. If Taylor-Serrano 2 is even near as entertaining as their first bout, issues will proceed trying brilliant for girls who have interaction within the candy science. Maybe significantly so.
*Photograph: Matchroom
