The broad strokes. Katie Taylor won her fight against seven-weight world champion Amanda Serrano at the beginning and at the end of the 10 two-minute rounds in Madison Square Garden.
Where she lost ground was largely in the mid-section when Serrano, with her go-forward hard-hitting style, drew Taylor into a scrap, caught her more static than she had been and in the fifth round could well have finished it with Taylor trapped on the ropes in a corner.
The prospect of three-minute rounds, the time limit for men, was again one of the issues brought up afterwards, those in the Serrano camp at least believing if that defining fifth round had gone on for another 60 seconds, the boxing world might have been looking at a new professional lightweight champion. Ifs and buts and insulting to T …
- May 2, 2022
