Once again, Taylor squeaks past Serrano, retains title in epic slugfest
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In the pantheon of women’s boxing matches most view the sublime April 2022 battle between then-undisputed lightweight champion Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano, the featherweight champion moving up in weight, as the greatest female fight of all time.
It was a rousing battle that Taylor won by heavily disputed split decision on the big stage of a sold-out Madison Square Garden in New York. Now that all-time great fight has company.
Fast-forward to the long-awaited and previously postponed rematch 2½ years later and they produced another absolutely epic fight that will take its place alongside the first one as a legendary night in women’s boxing, this time in the co-feature of the Jake Paul-Mike Tyson heavyweight spectacle on Friday night on Netflix before 72,300 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.
And as happened in the first fight, it was Taylor, now the undisputed junior welterweight champion, retaining the title, this time on a heavily disputed unanimous decision over surefire fellow future Hall of Famer Serrano, who is still the featherweight champion but moved up three weight classes this time instead of the two she did for the first fight.
Once again they slugged it out like the female version of Muhammad Ali against Joe Frazier in a bloody, ultra high-contact battle that Taylor won 95-94 on all three scorecards. Fight Freaks Unite also had Taylor winning 95-94.
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