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Early Saturday morning, in one of boxing’s oldest and most storied colosseums, Madison Square Garden, New York, Katie Taylor will meet Amanda Serrano for the third and probably final time. It is a venue dripping in history – from LaMotta versus Robinson, Louis and Marciano to Lewis and Holyfield and the fight of the century, Ali versus Frazier in 1971 – ‘The Garden’ has seen it all. 

The trilogy bout between the two veterans is likely to confirm their own place alongside those illustrious pairings. Taylor and Serrano first boxed in 2022 in a fight widely considered one of the greatest contests in women’s boxing history at this same venue, and their rematch in late 2024 was equally compelling and ferociously fought. A ferocity that made this trilogy bout inevitable and hotly anticipated.

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Katie Taylor v Amanda Serrano

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Katie Taylor v Amanda Serrano Best Bets & Predictions 

🥊 Amanda Serrano to Win by Decision

🥊 Fight Result - Draw

At stake is a prize worth more than the purse or the IBF, WBC, WBO, and IBO belts Taylor will be seeking to hold on to. Should Taylor win against Serrano, for the third time following two ‘razor’ thin decision victories, she will confirm dominance, however marginal, over her greatest rival and take her place as the greatest female fighter of her generation. Clarissa Shields may argue to the contrary but Taylor’s level of opposition in the lower weights has been tougher than her American contemporary.

When the last bell is tolled on their respective careers, Taylor and Serrano’s names will live long in the minds of those who saw their bouts, and such was their intensity that their names, like Ali and Frazier before them, will be eternally connected.

Bookmakers have installed the 36-year-old Serrano, 47-3-1 (31), as the 4/6 favourite for the bout – incongruous with the two victories Taylor boasts, but perhaps reflective of perceived decline in Taylor over a sequence of fights. Now 39, Taylor’s relentlessly aggressive style is hard to sustain as the years and rounds pass. She has been in a series of tough, long fights and accumulated 214 rounds in half the number of bouts Serrano has boxed 246 rounds in. It is Taylor’s refreshing insistence on meaningful opponents that has drawn her to more punishing battles. Coupled with a lack of knockout power and the shorter two-minute rounds that reduce the potential of stoppages, Taylor has prevailed in a lot of attritional contests.

Her record of 24-1 (6) illustrates the point. Despite her brilliance and high output style, she rarely succeeds in stopping her opponents and therefore travels the full distance more often than most elite fighters. A desire to entertain also ensures her aggressive, pressuring style is always deployed. She is a better boxer than she ever affords herself the opportunity to be. As a result, she is hit and has perhaps become more hittable as her youth has faded. Over time, that willingness to take shots to land her own carries a price. In victory and defeat to Chantelle Cameron and in flattering moments in other fights, there has been evidence of some of Taylor’s zeal and energy having been lost along the way.