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During today’s press conference that formally announced July 11 MVP card headlined by a third fight between Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano, all the fighters appeared at the event to talk about the show. During one part of session Taylor and Serrano began to exchange words over broken promises and the official results of their last fight.
Serrano on Taylor not following through with their handshake deal to fight 12 three-minute rounds
“We shook on it, you can roll the tapes. We shook on it, she didn’t agree when we went to sign the contract. Listen, I was undisputed champion and I believe I wanted to fight three-minutes, 12 rounds.
“I believe women can do it, we’re capable of it as you saw, and the WBC said no so I had to give up one of my babies. I worked hard for that belt, I worked hard for all my belts. They decided they weren’t going to go with it so I had to give it up. I had to go with what I believed in and I believed in the 12 threes so if that’s her choice, that’s her choice but I believe women should get the recognition and the equality that men get.”
Taylor’s response to going through with the three minute rounds
“I think we shook on it depending on if you won the fight. But regardless I think it’s a matter of principle that the challenger shouldn’t be dictating the terms of the fight. I am 2-0 here and I’m in the drivers seat here, and that’s only right. At the end of the day Amanda needs this fight a lot more than I do. I have a long history of big fights against big names and a line of people queuing up to fight me for the payday.
“I think the point of a three-minute round was to prove to people that you get more knockouts — how many knockouts did you get in your 12 three-minute rounds? Zero. They end up being boring fights. And it wasn’t a good advertisement for 12 three-minute rounds for women, it was boring. So I don’t think Netflix are too disappointed that this fight is a 10 two-minute round fight.”
Taylor on Serrano believing the world saw her win in her last fight despite the official loss
“I’m uninterested in what Amanda says about the fight, I’m only interested in what the judges say about the fight. And I am 2-0 here and July 11th I’m going to be 3-0.”
Serrano’s reaction to Taylor’s comments
“The world has eyes. They saw what they saw. It sucks that it takes three judges, three people who saw something completely different but millions of people saw it another way.”
Taylor on the official decision of their rematch
“Even with the ridiculous point deduction during that fight the three judges still saw it my way. I was the deserved winner and here we are again having a silly conversation because you’re trying to create a narrative that you were robbed in that fight. That’s not okay, Amanda.”
