ORLANDO, Florida – Amanda Serrano and her promoter, Jake Paul, on Friday threw down the gauntlet, urging Katie Taylor to agree to 12 three-minute rounds when they fight for a third time.
Serrano, 47-3-1 (31 KOs), was beaten contentiously on points in the fighters’ November rematch, 19 months after Taylor edged their first encounter via split decision. That sequel, which was on the undercard of Paul’s victory over 58-year-old Mike Tyson, was reportedly watched in 50 million homes on Netflix.
Puerto Rico’s Serrano, 36, has long campaigned for 12 threes in women’s boxing, and defeated Danila Ramos over that distance in October 2023. She insists that Taylor has already verbally agreed to making their anticipated trilogy contest over the longer duration.
“I mean, I want it,” Serrano said. “[Taylor] says she wants it. She said before and after the fight, she’s up for it. Let’s see when we start negotiating. … Before the fight, we shook hands and she said she was ready for it. Let’s see.”
Paul, in Orlando promoting his latest MVP boxing show, is not convinced that Taylor – an advocate of the women’s standard of 10 two-minute rounds – will agree to Serrano’s request, but he urged her to do so.
“A lot of boxers say a lot of shit, but when it comes to the contract, they’re probably not down,” he explained. “I don’t think she’s down, but for equality, she needs to do it. It’s only right and it makes the fight bigger stakes, so, Katie Taylor, 12 threes.”
Whatever the distance, Serrano promises she has no fear despite the first two fights going against her on the cards.
“I’m up for the challenge again, to fight Katie Taylor,” she said. “I’m a warrior, definitely. I feel I won the first two fights, I feel like they were my fights, so we definitely need to run it back. I’m the fighter – that’s why I have these amazing men next to me. They’re the team and they figure out the best options for me.”
MVP co-founder Nakisa Bidarian confirmed that the third fight is at the top of the agenda for Serrano in 2025.
“The priority for Amanda is the trilogy with Katie Taylor, presuming it makes business sense for everybody involved,” he said. “That’s what her focus is.”
“When they do the trilogy, it’s going to be the biggest event across all sports. Seventy-five million people watched Amanda Serrano endure a head-butt, with a massive cut on her eye, and fight through it. So every girl, young lady and woman is going to have a stake when that trilogy happens.”
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