By: Sean Crose
The primary battle was terrific. The second was even higher. Make no mistake about it Katie Taylor’s blistering rematch with Amanda Serrano this previous November was greater than only a nice ladies’s battle – it was an amazing battle, interval. There’s good cause why the ten spherical battle is Boxing Insider’s 2024 Battle Of The Yr. Some fights ebb and circulate. Taylor-Serrano 2 was relentless. Watching the 2 future Corridor of Famers commerce blows, it was onerous to disclaim that this was a battle which might be remembered for a very long time. The ending was controversial, however there was no denying this had been one among boxing’s true gems of 2024.
The fact is that Taylor-Serrano 2 ought to have been the highest battle on the cardboard that went down in Arlington, Texas in November of this previous 12 months. Sadly, nevertheless, Taylor-Serrano 2 was the co-main occasion of a card that featured the infamous Mike Tyson-Jake Paul throwdown. That bout, as everybody who noticed or had entry to study is aware of, was a catastrophe. The one good factor to say about such a harmful novelty battle is the truth that Tyson emerged unharmed. One other first rate bit of reports is over seventy million folks tuned in to observe Taylor and Serrano get it on for the second time that night.
The bout itself was basically pure motion from the opening bell on. Taylor acquired tagged late within the first as each ladies fired away at full pace. By the fourth Serrano had a large minimize on her head. The gash grew to become such a difficulty that the referee stopped the battle within the sixth so the ring physician might ensure that all was nicely with Serrano. All was certainly nicely for the gutsy New Yorker – or a minimum of in addition to could possibly be anticipated for somebody within the warmth of gloved fight – and so the battle resumed.
Issues grew to become so ferocious within the seventh that Boxing Insider wrote the next: “The seventh was ferocious…as in Hagler-Hearns first spherical ferocious.” Apart from Taylor being deducted some extent for head butting the eighth, the rest of the battle remained as intense, high-octane and albeit thrilling because it had been as much as that time. In the end, Taylor held on to her quite a few junior welterweight titles due to the choice of the judges, a choice that many – this writer included – felt ought to have gone to Serrano.
Controversial resolution or not, there’s merely no query that Taylor and Serrano not solely stole the present that night, however placed on the most effective battle of 2024, as nicely.
