Katie Taylor will rematch multiple-weight world champion Amanda Serrano on the undercard of the Mike Tyson vs. Jake Paul bout in Dallas this summer time, it was confirmed on Tuesday.
The bout, which comes greater than two years after Taylor defeated Serrano by cut up choice in Madison Sq. Backyard within the greatest girls’s boxing match in historical past, will probably be held on the AT&T in Arlington, Texas — the house of NFL outfit the Dallas Cowboys. This contest will as soon as once more signify a excessive water mark for an all-female conflict, on condition that the attendance is predicted to be within the area of 80,000.
Taylor’s undisputed light-weight titles will probably be on the road, whereas Serrano strikes up three divisions from featherweight for the bout.
The July 20 card will probably be streamed dwell on Netflix, in a transfer which is able to seemingly draw one of many largest audiences for a fight sports activities spectacle given the streaming platform’s transfer into broadcasting dwell sports activities.
The affirmation of the battle additionally implies that Taylor’s third battle with Chantelle Cameron — the one lady to have defeated Taylor in skilled competitors — should wait.
“That is the rematch the world has needed to see, and I’m delighted that it’s lastly occurring,” Taylor stated in an announcement. “The primary battle in New York was clearly an epic event and it greater than lived as much as the billing, and I’m certain the rematch will probably be no totally different.”
Serrano, in the meantime, pledged to change into the primary fighter to attain a end of the Irish fighter once they sq. off for the second time.
“I promised my followers they’d see this rematch after we made historical past at MSG and it looks like a dream come true to know that Katie and I are lastly making it occur on the most important stage potential to indicate the world what elite girls’s boxing is all about,” she stated. “I consider I received our first battle, however I didn’t get the choice, so this time I’m not leaving it to the judges.”
