Undisputed women’s light welterweight champion Chantelle Cameron (18-0, 8 KOs) stayed unbeaten with a 10 round majority decision win over the previously undefeated Katie Taylor (22-1, 6 KOs) on Saturday night at the 3Arenaa in Dublin, Ireland.
April’s boxing schedule really is quite something, with numerous big and exciting fights set – Anthony Joshua’s return, Shakur Stevenson’s 135 pound debut, Joe Joyce-Zhang Zhilei, Tank Davis-Ryan Garcia and, we hope, Fury-Usyk – but the month of May is also shaping up as something special.
How can you not be a fan, an admirer of Katie Taylor? The female superstar, having seen that her big return fight with Amanda Serrano has been postponed due to injury on the part of Serrano, has called for another massive fight – one that would see the Irish hero move up to 140 pounds for her homecoming fight in Ireland.
In bad but seemingly unavoidable news, it has been reported by Irish-Boxing that the big May rematch between Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano that was all set for Dublin on May 20, will not be happening as scheduled.
When they met last April in New York, female superstars Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano gave us The Fight of the Year.
In some ways, women’s boxing dominated 2022, with stars such as Katie Taylor and Claressa Shields engaging in genuinely huge, exciting fights that all fans tuned in to see.
Female boxing was big this year, very big. Though the sport is not for everyone, female boxing has grown and grown in popularity, this something that didn’t seem possible back when female boxing was struggling for acceptance, let alone looking to pull in big numbers as far as live gate and PPV numbers are concerned.
Last night in London, after successfully defending her unified lightweight titles against a game Karen Elizabeth Carabajal, superstar Katie Taylor made it clear: her next fight has to be at Croke Park in Ireland.
Unified women’s lightweight champion Katie Taylor has made it clear, very clear – a return fight with Amanda Serrano (yes please!)
Jake Paul is throwing his money about again; or the fighter/promoter is offering up a big sum of dough. Speaking on the DAZN Boxing Show, Paul challenged Katie Taylor to box a return fight with his fighter Amanda Serrano, down at 126 pounds.