Amanda Serrano accuses 'dirty' Katie Taylor of cheating after controversial fight

Katie Taylor defended her undisputed super-lightweight rubric with different thrilling triumph implicit Amanda Serrano successful their long-awaited rematch - but the Puerto Rican was acold from blessed with the last result, branding the Irish prima "dirty" arsenic her country accused Taylor of cheating

Amanda Serrano slammed “dirty” Katie Taylor and accused the undisputed super-lightweight champion of cheating successful their thrilling Texas rematch.

Two years aft Taylor edged retired Serrano successful an instant classical successful New York, The Irish combatant did truthful again, on the undercard of Mike Tyson's combat with Jake Paul connected Friday night.

Via unanimous decision, 95-94 crossed the scorecards, Taylor claimed victory, overmuch to the fury of a booing Dallas crowd, who had vociferously backed Serrano throughout. And determination was fury from Serrano and her country too, aft a seemingly accidental headbutt successful circular 4 led to a atrocious chopped connected the Puerto Rican’s forehead. That coiled lone got worse arsenic the combat progressed.

"Hey Doc that'a a headbutt" said Serrano's trainer, making his vexation clear, with the country branding Taylor ‘a cheat’ also. “Both fighters were coming forward,” explained the official.

Taylor and Serrano embraced each different aft the bell, but the heavy pro-Serrano assemblage voiced their displeasure arsenic the effect was announced and Serrano made her feelings wide connected Taylor post-fight.

I knew erstwhile it went to the judges it was going to beryllium a small shady," said Serrano. "Listen, I chose to fight. I went up 3 divisions. I mislaid successful 2 and I dared to beryllium large tonight. I americium the featherweight champion of the world. I privation to beryllium great. I lone combat the best. It is what it is. I'm a featherweight.

"Every clip you get a chopped it hurts. You get humor successful your eye. She kept head-butting me, but we knew that from the precise beginning, the archetypal fight. It's not lone my fight, she did it with Chantelle Cameron. Listen, I americium Puerto Rican. No substance however galore cuts, I volition combat to the precise end.

"I deliberation 100 percent due to the fact that she does it [uses head] successful each fight. My archetypal chopped was with Katie Taylor. She did it with Chantelle Cameron. I've seen different fights wherever she uses her head, dirty. It is what it is."

Immediately aft the fight, Serrano took to societal media and downplayed Taylor’s triumph further, declaring: “I’m a ruthless warrior and Katie is my buddy, but Damn her champion property is her head. No punching powerfulness but hard ass caput lol.”

And pointing to the fight's statistics, she insisted she should person emerged victorious.

Taylor, of course, saw things differently, and speaking successful the ringing aft her victory, hinted astatine a 3rd bout betwixt the pair. She said: “I knew it was an implicit slug fest successful there, an implicit war.

“Thank God I won this fight, congratulations to Amanda. She's a fantastic fighter. I deliberation we agreed to 12 three-minute rounds successful our adjacent fight; the triple is on."

Quizzed successful the ringing connected the bout and its cardinal moments, Taylor responded: "That's what a boxer does, we bid to retrieve from those moments. Any punch tin alteration a combat successful boxing. She's a hard puncher, she's precise pugnacious and I prepared for that. I don't attraction if the commentary squad oregon the assemblage disagree with the result. The lone ones that substance are the judges astir the ring.

"I didn't hold with the constituent deduction. I surely wasn't warring dirty. Sometimes it gets soiled successful determination and you person to hole for those moments. This is an astonishing infinitesimal for women's boxing, we enactment connected a amusement for everybody."