Taylor came out victorious by majority decision in New York
Katie Taylor was victorious in her trilogy fight with Amanda Serrano at Madison Square Garden on Saturday morning, taking her to 3-0 in her rivalry with the Puerto Rican.
In an historic all-female card in New York, the Bray woman won by majority decision – 95-95, 97-93 and 97-93 – to retain her undisputed WBC, WBA, IBF and WBO women’s super lightweight titles.
And while fans celebrated Taylor’s huge success on social media, plenty pointed out how the Netflix commentary of the fight had been hugely biased towards Serrano.
Netflix’s scorecard also had the fight down as a draw, while most other scorecards had Taylor victorious.
One fan said: “Netflix commentary team so ridiculously biased last 2 fights. Katie Taylor is the GOAT and these analysts barely could acknowledge anything other than how amazing Serrano is.”
Another said: “Just watching Taylor vs Serrano, and gotta say the Netflix commentary team is diabolical! Ignoring Taylor’s punches and coming out with nonsense about ‘if one fighter punches harder but the other punches more, how do you score that’”
And another added: “Think that Netflix commentary team and boxing pundits on this app need to realise that landing more punches or higher percentage of punches wins fights.”
Asked about her future after the fight, the 39-year-old didn’t rule out retirement, but did rule out another fight with Serrano: “I don’t know [if I will keep going] but I just don’t want to fight Amanda Serrano again – she punches too hard! She is amazing.”
Taylor and Serrano both landed 70 punches, and the latter said after the fight: “I’ll have to go back and watch it. My team said I won and obviously I go with what my team tells me.”
Taylor’s victory adds to the 2022 win in New York over Serrano, and the victory last November in Texas. She is now 25-1 in her career.
