Taylor, who received a gold medal within the 2012 Olympics, stays undefeated and improves her profession report to 21-0 and 6 knockouts.
The 35-year-old received through a break up choice in entrance of a capability crowd on the Backyard, efficiently defending her ladies’s light-weight titles within the WBA, IBF, WBO and WBC.
The bout led to spectacular style as each fighters, visibly exhausted, desperately tried to land their closing punches.
It was Taylor, bloodied and unsteady on her ft after taking heavy photographs from Serrano within the fifth spherical, who was declared the winner.
“I knew going into it I used to be going to be within the trenches at some stage,” Taylor mentioned, in keeping with Reuters.
“She’s an outstanding fighter, a terrific, nice particular person, and I had the guts and the talent and I knew I used to be going to have the ability to come by way of.”
Serrano’s report now stands at 42-2-1 and 30 knockouts. She has earned world titles throughout seven weight courses starting from 115 to 140 kilos. Final yr, Serrano, 33, efficiently defended her WBO and WBC featherweight titles.
“We’re two nice champions in our prime and it is going to make for such an incredible struggle,” Taylor mentioned. “I believe stylistically we would do very, very nicely collectively. She’s clearly a really, very aggressive fighter and so am I. So, I believe it is going to be a really, very thrilling struggle.”
The match marked the primary time two ladies had been headlining on the “World’s Most Well-known Enviornment.” It was additionally the boxing’s first struggle between the pound-for-pound No. 1 and No. 2 since 2008, when Manny Pacquiao defeated Juan Manuel Marquez.
As a long-time pioneer within the sport, Taylor mentioned her personal success is not sufficient, saying she additionally desires different ladies boxers to be elevated.
“I really feel like now we have coated loads of floor over the previous couple of years when it comes to the paycheck and the purses, however I nonetheless really feel like we nonetheless have an extended technique to go as nicely,” she instructed CNN.
“It is not okay that myself and Amanda are simply those which might be getting the large paychecks, however that has to hold over onto the opposite feminine fighters as nicely and I hope that may occur.”
Saturday’s match was initially scheduled to be held Might 2, 2020, however was postponed because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
