Serrano's injury causes rematch against Taylor to be postponed
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The highly anticipated rematch between undisputed women’s lightweight champion Katie Taylor and undisputed featherweight champion Amanda Serrano was postponed on Tuesday due to an undisclosed Serrano injury, the promoters announced.
Taylor and Serrano were scheduled to square off on May 20 in the main event of a DAZN card at a venue to be determined in Dublin, Ireland, a homecoming fight for Taylor, who has yet to fight in her home country as a professional.
“Due to an injury sustained by Amanda Serrano, Matchroom Boxing and Most Valuable Promotions regret to announce that the Taylor-Serrano II bout on May 20 in Dublin will not go ahead as planned,” the promoters said in a statement. “The teams are in discussions about finding a revised date for the bout. Further details will follow in due course.”
Rising Irish lightweight prospect Gary Cully (16-0, 10 KOs), 27, was due to box in a 10-rounder in the co-feature.
The rematch was tremendously anticipated following their epic battle that ranks as perhaps the greatest women’s fight of all time.
Taylor (22-0, 6 KOs), 36, narrowly defeated the Puerto Rican southpaw Serrano (44-2-1, 30 KOs), 34, of Brooklyn, New York, by disputed split decision last April 30 at sold-out Madison Square Garden in New York. Their fight was the first women’s headliner at the famed arena.
Taylor promoter Eddie Hearn of Matchroom Boxing and Serrano representative MVP Promotions — Jake Paul’s promotional company — talked about an immediate rematch but they could not make a deal and went their separate ways.
Taylor cruised to a near-shutout of Karen Elizabeth Carabajal on Oct. 29 at OVO Wembley Arena on London and Serrano, the only women to win world titles in seven divisions, has fought twice since.
Serrano easily outpointed Sarah Mahfoud in September in a three-belt unification fight and then on Feb. 4 won a unanimous decision over Erika Cruz in an all-out, bloody slugfest at the Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden to unify all four belts to become the undisputed champion on a Matchroom Boxing card.
The rematch with Taylor had already been signed but was contingent on Serrano winning. After the fight Taylor got into the ring with Serrano and Hearn announced the rematch, which will now move later into the year.
Photo: Ed Mulholland/Matchroom Boxing
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I think Serrano is still recovering from the Cruz fight and needs more time I would say sep aug when it will happen