Indeed, Taylor-Serrano will be, by any metric, the biggest fight in the history of women’s professional boxing, and one of the biggest fights of boxing’s calendar year - male or female.Ī busy media day on Wednesday began with a joint interview on Fox television both fighters and culminated in their ceremonially closing the market on Wall Street, Taylor ringing the bell and Serrano dropping the hammer. Mostly to Taylor’s credit, meanwhile, is the fact that April’s long-awaited lightweight showdown (for which the Irishwoman will earn significantly more than Serrano as the champion and higher-profile fighter) will be the headline act in the 20,000-capacity main room at Madison Square Garden: the first female bill-topper at the iconic venue in its 140-year association with combat sports. In 2022, the fear of losing will have largely dissipated on the back of Taylor’s last couple of lacklustre performances and, to Serrano and Maldonado’s credit, the 33-year-old southpaw is set to earn somewhere in the region of a million dollars - probably 10 times more than she would have if they had taken the fight when it was first broached. For a time, there existed in them a fear of losing, certainly, but more pertinently it was a fear of cashing in Serrano’s significant legacy for less than they believed it was worth. Theirs has been a fight more than five years in the making, mostly because Amanda Serrano and her trainer-manager Jordan Maldonado have refused to take it since Taylor turned professional in 2016. WE CANNOT WAIT FOR THIS ONE 🔥 #TaylorSerrano | /q71TfAqC7j- DAZN Boxing February 2, 2022
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Whatever the Puerto Rican Brooklynite said to the Bray woman was met with a simple, ‘Yeah.’ Behind the challenger, an animated Jake Paul - the YouTuber and fledgling pro boxer who has taken Serrano under his managerial wing - clapped and shouted ‘Let’s go!’ And for the first time, however briefly, the whole boxing world was in agreement with its self-styled Problem Child. Serrano wasn’t shy, strolling straight into Taylor’s personal space and breaking into a typical boxer’s pose, with Taylor following suit.Īs they turned to face each other for the staredown shot, there was the most curt of verbal exchanges. When the talking at the top table concluded, the fighters were asked to converge for photographs. TODAY’S PRESS CONFERENCE in New York wasn’t Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano’s first meeting in person but it was the first time boxing fans saw the pair of pound-for-pound greats turned towards each other for a staredown and, consequently, the first time their landmark 30 April showdown felt real.
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