Amanda Serrano comments on ‘true fighter’ Katie Taylor’s first career defeat
Amanda Serrano had several type phrases for Katie Taylor in the aftermath of her first educated boxing defeat last weekend — but she said that a rematch of the pair’s traditional Madison Square Backyard bout now appears to be no longer at risk of occur.
Taylor became outpointed by the UK’s Chantelle Cameron in her first-ever pro bout in her home nation in front of a packed but finally dissatisfied skill crowd in Dublin’s 3 Enviornment last Saturday evening because the 2 undisputed world champions went toe-to-toe for ten rounds in the Irish capital.
And Serrano, who Taylor handed moral her second defeat in 47 fights last year in Original York, became corpulent of praise for the Irish well-known particular person when speaking to Ariel Helwani on The MMA Hour (by strategy of MMA Struggling with) this week — but added that a sequel to their first fight now appears to be extra special.
“Positively, I assert it did,” said Serrano when requested if she felt the stop result harms the odds of second fight between the 2. “Katie is a warrior. She’s a fighter. She’s a factual fighter, and he or she’s going to desire to get that support. I do know that’s going to be on her thoughts, 100%. Dropping hurts. It does. It sucks giant time. And it being home will deserve to contain hurt her plenty extra. I’m moral hoping she will be able to mentally be ready for the rematch. I admire what Katie’s going to execute, and that’s get the rematch.
“Perhaps [it will only be] delayed if she comes out on high, beating Cameron, which I don’t assert that will occur. But when she does, then possibly the rematch with me will occur. I moral hope that Katie does the upright thing and he or she wins.”
Serrano became slated to the be preliminary opponent for Taylor in Dublin sooner than an pain in the lead-in compelled her out of the fight, and whereas the Puerto Rican is composed aggrieved on the stop outcomes of their spoil up dedication, she acknowledges what the fight meant for females’s boxing as a total.
“I’ve been over it,” she said. “Admire I said, it positively hurt, but I essentially feel fancy I did all the pieces upright. I essentially feel fancy I won, my team kept encouraging me, my island of Puerto Rico, they informed me every second that I won that fight, so I became tickled with moral that. That I did what I had to execute to showcase — I became going up two divisions! People don’t realize that. Katie went up one division, and inquire what took situation. I went up two divisions.
“So I essentially feel fancy I deserve the honour going available in the market and doing what I did to Katie. I felt fancy I hurt Katie extra than one times in that fight, Cameron didn’t execute that. There’s no regrets. I loved that night with Katie Taylor, it became a massive night for females’s boxing, and I moved on, I became undisputed champion the set I belong, at featherweight.
“I’m at peace. It’s been years and years of ‘Katie Taylor, Katie Taylor.’ I became fancy, ‘Oh my god!’ Honestly, when I got the fight, I became fancy, ‘Thank god! I execute what I essentially desire to execute, after which I don’t want to hear Katie Taylor’s title any other time.’ That didn’t occur. [Laughs] It became continuously, ‘Katie, Katie, Katie.’ But I’m joyful how I performed, I’m joyful what I did after that — became undisputed champion — and I’m instruct material with my profession.”
