Katie Taylor set to lose world title despite beating Amanda Serrano in rematch

The 38-year-old had to excavation heavy successful her clash with Serrano, but went connected to spell 2-0 up successful the series, however, she whitethorn person to sacrifice 1 of her titles pursuing the win

Irish boxing prima Katie Taylor is astatine hazard of losing 1 of her world titles pursuing her caller razor-thin triumph implicit long-time rival Amanda Serrano.

The 38-year-old retained her satellite titles with a triumph implicit a bloodied Serrano connected the Jake Paul vs Mike Tyson undercard. While galore wrong the boxing assemblage thought Serrano did capable to triumph the contest, each of the 3 judges scored the combat to Taylor by a constituent arsenic the Irish sensation retained her presumption arsenic the undisputed super-lightweight champion.

Speaking aft the fight, she said: "Well, it's evidently hard to people the fight, but 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."

As good arsenic being the super-lightweight queen, Taylor is besides the WBC lightweight champion, but is successful information of being forced to relinquish the golden strap. She hasn't fought astatine 135lb since beating Karen Carvajal implicit 2 years ago. She past opted to determination up to 140lb to instrumentality connected Chantelle Cameron.

Caroline Dubois is presently the WBC's interim lightweight champion and has been calling for her changeable astatine the afloat title loop for rather immoderate clip now. Recently, Taylor's squad were issued a connection by WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman that a determination connected the substance volition soon beryllium taken.

Sulaiman told Sky Sports: "It has been rather a agelong clip since [Taylor] defended the lightweight [title]. Caroline Dubois is the Interim champion. Caroline Dubois got an Interim title truthful she tin marque money, she tin beryllium a champion and look successful the adjacent aboriginal for something. Hopefully determination volition beryllium a resolution. We're going to fto Katie Taylor instrumentality a precise good deserved remainder for a week past we're going to interaction them and spot precisely what the plans are."

A last determination is expected to beryllium made astatine the WBC normal adjacent month. Despite turning 38 successful July, Taylor's promoter - Eddie Hearn - has precocious revealed that his lawsuit is anxious to inactive vie astatine the apical level. "How overmuch person we talked astir it implicit the years and, similar if determination was ever a time...I've really said this before, to beryllium fair," Hearn told Off The Ball. "But we're successful November now, that gives you capable mentation for a summertime lawsuit astatine Croke Park.

"We've conscionable seen the biggest pistillate combat of each clip successful beforehand of the biggest assemblage of each time. It's like, surely...and I'll beryllium honorable with you, I don't deliberation it's 100 per cent guaranteed that Katie Taylor volition combat again. I'm definite she will, but it's going to instrumentality thing beauteous peculiar and unique.

"We had a agelong telephone with her past nighttime with (her manager) Brian Peters and she was afloat of (enthusiasm). In the grooming country aft (the fight), it benignant of felt similar if she was to crook astir present and say, 'that's it for me', I'd really beryllium highly blessed successful a mode that you could bow retired connected a nighttime similar that.

"But past she said, 'there's a fewer things, though, that I'd truly similar to do'. I said, 'what's that', and she said, 'Obviously I'd similar to combat astatine Croke Park and I'd similar to combat successful Las Vegas. Then you commencement thinking, wow. I cognize there's been a batch of involvement from the Madison Square Garden guys due to the fact that of the archetypal Serrano combat to bash thing perchance successful the Sphere successful Las Vegas, which would beryllium truthful iconic for her vocation - and Croke Park. But I conscionable deliberation if it's Chantelle (Cameron) backmost astatine the 3Arena oregon it's Amanda Serrano backmost astatine MSG, I'm not definite that's needfully going to truly excite her successful the aforesaid mode that doing thing antithetic would."