Despite the bruises and a cut on the left side of her head from which blood trickled down her face during the press conference over an hour after the fight, Katie Taylor remained the most chilled person in the room.
She had just added powers of recovery to her suite of talents after winning the biggest fight in women’s boxing history and the most lucrative purse, a seven-figure sum. For that she and Amanda Serrano provided an intense and epic battle.
In a fifth-round assault, where the challenger to Taylor’s undisputed lightweight crown almost upended her plans, Taylor survived, regathered and returned to win, the final dramatic round a demonstration of bravery and heart as the pair, standing nose to nose in a dog fight and refusing to back off, brought the New York evening to a ferocious and probabl …
- May 2, 2022
