Katie Taylor (left) and Amanda Serrano (right), face off in the Empire State Building with their promoters Eddie Hearn and Jake Paul.
The path that women’s boxing began to tread largely from the 1990s, with Christy Martin appearing on large billboards organized by Don King, there will be a big milestone this Saturday: the Irish Katie Taylor and Puerto Rico Amanda Serrano will star in battles most important in history of boxing done by women and the first to headline a billboard in Madison Square Garden from New York. The match, which will begin around 11:15 pm, will be visible through the application DAZN (The broadcast will begin at 8:30 pm).
Lucia Rijker, Laila Ali, Regina Halmich, Holly Holm and Cecilia Braekhus are some of the smartest fighters to follow in Martin’s footsteps, but never have two fighters of this caliber met in the splendor of their careers like Taylor and Serrano. most are considered by specialists as the two best pound-for-pound female boxers on the planet these daysdespite the fact there are those who put the American on the second step of the podium Claressa Shields (unified central division champion).
“It’s almost like (Floyd) Mayweather- (Manny) Pacquiao of women’s boxing. You have the undisputed champion against the world champion of seven divisions ”Eddie Hearn, CEO of Matchroom Boxing, one of the most important promoters on the planet, co-organizer of the event with Most Valuable Promotions (MVP), youtuber company Jake Paul, assured that, despite his detractors, has made an important contribution to give visibility to female boxing.
In this rivalry, which was initially negotiated for May 2020 and suffered many delays due to the coronavirus pandemic and due to economic differences between the parties, the four lightweight division belts owned by Taylor are at stake. . And the two contenders will collect a seven -figure bag, something that has never been done in female boxing. The heroes deserve it.
Irish Katie Taylor in public practice. Photo: Sarah Stier/Getty Images/AFP.
The undisputed 135-pound champion He had an impressive amateur career before starting his journey into the sport for hire. She started boxing at the age of 10 at a club in Bray, her hometown, and on October 31, 2001, when she was 15, she starred in the first sanctioned women’s boxing match in Ireland after activity regulation in 1997 (the defeated Alanna Audley at the National Stadium in Dublin).
As a fan, it is Olympic champion in London 2012 and winner of five editions of the AIBA World Cup. Most of these successes have been achieved while he was also a footballer: He came to represent his country’s team in 15 international matches, including some of the Qualifiers for Eurocopa Finland 2009 and for the World Cups in China 2007 and Germany 2011.
While building her career as a novice boxer, Katie Taylor was also a footballer and represented the Irish national team.
His leap into professional activity took place in November 2016, when he was 30 years old, and 11 months later he won his first world title, the World Boxing Association: he defeated Anahí Sánchez from Pergamin in by Cardiff Millennium points. He has since marked his dominance at 135 pounds and added other belts until he won them all after a close victory against the Belgian Delfine Persoon in 2019. At 35 years old, with the ideal record 20 successes and skilled in great stages and in great unions, expose for the sixth time its four bands.
Amanda Serrano with her public training trainer at Chase Square. Photo: Angela Weiss/AFP.
Your opponent will be Cindy Serrano’s younger sister, which the Irishwoman defeated in October 2018 in Boston. Following in the footsteps of Cindy (who became World Boxing Organization featherweight champion), Amanda, who was born in Carolina (Puerto Rico) and lives in Brooklyn, began sparring at age 18, debuting as a professional at the age of that is 20 and at 13 years. achieved what no other woman had even tried.
With amazing ease of gaining and losing weight, and never settling into one category: won titles in seven divisions, from super flight to super light. Trained by Jordan Maldonado, Cindy’s husband, he has made a record of 42 wins (30 before the limit), 1 draw and 1 loss. Her only retreat was against Swedish Frida Wallberg 10 years ago. Since then, he has chained 28 victories. Seemingly lacking, he also competed in mixed martial arts events.
In these resumes, it is not surprising that both are given a large dimension to the filing. “This is one of the challenges I have always wanted. He is an amazing fighter, a great champion. That’s why this fight is the best in women’s boxing history: champion against champion, best against best ”Taylor maintained. “It’s one of my career goals. I can be an undisputed champion just by this fight. I want to win and then I’ll have time to be sentimental, sit down and say, ‘Wow, boxing is worth that. this. ‘”Said Serrano.
The perfect setting for such a tournament could not be other than Madison Square Garden, the same stadium where joe frazier he kidnapped the invincible Muhammad Ali | in the so-called Fight of the Century on March 8, 1971. It was the first time in the 143-year history of the legendary Manhattan Coliseum that two women would enliven the main duel of a night of boxing.
For Taylor, this will be the third experience in this area: there he defeated Finnish Eva Wahlstrom in December 2018 and Delfine Persoon in June 2019. Serrano, on the other hand, has twice competed in the Madison theater (against Eva Voraberger and Heather Hardy, both in 2019), but will do so for the first time in the main stadium, which has 20,000 seats, organizers trust, they will be busy.
Katie Taylor defeated Eva Wahlstrom at Madison Square Garden in December 2018.
Although the main characters have plenty of background to justify such an expectation, the recognition they have received in the United States in recent months (especially Serrano) was formed by the hand of a boxing novice, whose The descent has caused rashes on the traditionalists of the sport: Jake Paul.
On the day he entered professional boxing, in January 2020 (he defeated fellow youtuber An Eson Gib in Miami), Paul saw Serrano fight for the first time (he knocked out Brazilian Simone da Silva the same night) and he was shocked. He included him as a co-star at the first festival where he participated as organizer and boxer, in August 2021, and a month later, when he made his own promoter, the first one he signed was Serrano, who severed ties with Lou. DiBella and signed MVP. The Puerto Rican was also a co-star last night who had an influencer as a star attraction in December.
Amanda Serrano, her world champion belt and her promoter, youtuber Jake Paul.
“Working with Jake Paul changed everything. It’s amazing how an influencer like him completely changed boxing.”Serrano featured on the eve of the most important fight of his life. “In his name, he helped us grow the business and gave us credibility in the environment”says youtuber, who has 20.4 million subscribers on that platform and 19.4 million followers on Instagram, about the champion he chose to represent, without a mobile phone.
Source: Clarin
