Katie Taylor v. Amanda Serrano

Either way, my original point that you’re overestimating the reach of boxing and the Olympics stands

And none of this relates to Taylor selling out Croke Park…

Of course her profile is among people interested in boxing. But there are tens of millions around the world interested in boxing. Taylor is probably the best known female fighter in the world, to say she hasn't a profile outside of Ireland is just incorrect. Her fights have been on Sky Sports and DAZN, millions and millions of people outside of this country have watched her.

I hope they don't try and have the fight in Croke Park late this year, our weather just isn't conducive, it could be a fiasco. April or May next year would be fine, the interest will still be there.

Although a sports event, it's not GAA so I suspect it will require a license. Crocker is being used intensively this summer for non- gaa events so they may not get permission for yet another one. There have been no pro fights here since the regency hotel due to the inability to get insurance, so that needs to be negotiated too. That said KT will attract a different broader crowd, so that hurdle wont be as high.

If they go for croke park, it will need to be the summer - in order to give themselves the best chance of filling it. A half full croker definitely struggles for atmosphere. Filling a stadium at at least €75 a head is no easy task.

I think it's more likely they will go for Aviva, or if it must be in winter, the three arena. Both of those venues are superior to croke park for the spectator for this kind of event tbh.

Its obviously a rematch next - no other fights will be looked at.

I genuinely don't understand why people cannot understand just how high profile the fight was on Saturday. The media interest was meant to of been on same level if not more than AJ wlad fight

I was talking about Serrano in case you missed that.

I watched the Ring podcast on this. Michael Montero says he scored the fight at the time and then again after watching a reply afterwards and had it 6-4 to Taylor both times despite changing scoring on various rounds. (First time he gave Taylor, 1,2,3,8,9 ,10 and second time he gave her 1,2,4,7,8,9). He basically says that 3,4,7 and 10 were tossup rounds and that even 6 could have been scored either way.

He also says the judges scoring it 7-3 to Taylor were wrong but also criticises Chris Mannix for giving 3 of the first 4 rounds to Serrano (despite the fact that Mannix ended up scoring it 5-5).

Basically what I take from this is that scoring it 7-4 or even 8-2 Taylor was perfectly legit.

Serrano really only won the 5th clearly and edged the 6th but everything else you could legitimately give to Taylor. I definitely think the first Persoon fight was closer and I scored that one to Taylor too.

People are clouded by the fact that the clearest round of the fight was the 5th to Serrano but that only gets her 1 point.

Someone very wisely said that everyone agrees Taylor won round 1, 8 and 9 while Serrano won 5 and 6 clearly. That makes it 3-2 on clear rounds to Taylor and you can really score the other 5 how you like.

Does anyone know why Serrano appeared to be wearing regular runners in the fight? It looked like they weren't giving the same support that boxing shoes would.

Katie made it clear she wants to fight here. They'll fill the place and the atmosphere will be electric. I'd say it's 99% certain to happen. The GAA will be delighted to have Ireland's most popular sportsperson advertising Croke Park.

There won’t be a worldwide PPV audience. It’ll be on DAZN

Looking forward to the first Irish politician to call for it to be on RTE though

No it would not...training camps are anywhere from 8-12 weeks really

Hmm, but Persoon is a fighter a lot easier to learn from and improve for....

Serrano has a lot more technical skills, as well as the proven ability now to get to and hurt Katie.

Saying if she can avoid doing what she did isn't at all easy. Katie tried pretty much all night to box smart, move, hit and not get hit; but you can't always do that. Like I said before, her defense is not like Mayweather's or Toney's, so she needs to rely on feet and movement much more.

It was Katie's heart and guts and fight when she was trapped and needed to fight/survive that likely won her scores in the judges' minds.

For most the fight Katie negated Serrano with her movement, feet, spoiling and scoring. She juts had a few moment where she was forced to fight.

Katie's biggest weaknesses for me (for Searrano) are Katie's lack of physical presences/strength, and her lack of any real power. Serrano seemed to boss the flow more, and was physically stronger. Katie is not physically that durable/strong

Katie could win a rematch, but it would be a very risky fight in my view.

DAZN announced today that 1.5 million watched the fight on its platform on Saturday