After a week in which boxing writers witnessed their own extinction, Taylor and Amanda Serrano transported us to a bygone era.
Gavan Casey AS A MEMBER of Jake Paul’s communications staff attempted to deny Eddie Hearn entry to the post-fight press conference and her manager Brian Peters kicked off in front of her, Katie Taylor made the executive decision to round them all and make her way towards the stage.
It all made for such a pronounced contrast to the last time a Taylor victory had been roundly booed. In a Manhattan hotel following her contentious majority decision over Delfine Persoon at Madison Square Garden in June 2019, Irish journalists assembled for their own sit-down with the Bray woman only to be informed by her management that she didn’t want to leave her room.
Taylor even invited more boos from the 70,000 in attendance by stressing that she didn’t care what the pro-Serrano crowd thought of the result. Taylor and Serrano did battle in front of 70,000 fans, with 50 million households tuning into their bout. Ed Mulholland / INPHO Ed Mulholland / INPHO / INPHO Even Taylor and Serrano’s only true female peer, two-time Olympic gold medallist and five-weight professional world champion Claressa Shields, who is friendlier with Serrano than she is with Taylor, said in an interview: “I think Katie won the fight by a hair. It is what it is and look, I wanted Amanda to win.”
That’s not to yuck anybody else’s yum but merely to call a spade a spade: a lot of these people see their own truths in the world. The noise which greeted Silva’s introduction dwarfed the reception for Serrano and Taylor afterwards, and was louder even than the welcome for Jake Paul which followed. Only Mike Tyson was more feverishly celebrated by the three or four thousand packed into Toyota Music Factory.
Elon Musk has repeatedly claimed in the aftermath of the US election that the people are the media now. As a young sport which is consumed almost exclusively by younger generations, MMA has always embodied that sentiment. After Wednesday’s press conference, Robert Hynes from the Irish Mirror approached a couple of us who were congregated in a kind of bewildered Irishness towards the exit. “I was sitting next to your one Hawk Tuah Girl in the media seats,” he said. .
Serrano and Taylor swap right hands at centre-ring. Ed Mulholland / INPHO Ed Mulholland / INPHO / INPHO As I ballparked the respective distances in my head for some reason, I spotted my opening. Newly crowned super-middleweight world champion Shadasia Green and her crew were being led by two security staff towards the back entrance of the conference room, so I left the World War Z pile-up that was developing at the front door and made a beeline for Green’s convoy. I quietly explained my predicament to one of her backroom team as we approached a separate set of guards. “Ireland?” he said.
But it was an Irishman closer in age to Tyson who became the online sensation before Katie Taylor’s portion of the presser.Heads craned over shoulders to my side of the room as Paul’s communications guy tried to inform Team Taylor that her promoter Eddie Hearn — who has an ongoing libel case against Paul — would not be permitted to join the boxer and her trainer Ross Enamait onstage.
Even before Peters could call the tongue-tied MVP employee ‘Big Boy’ one last time, Taylor had already begun strolling to the stage with Hearn in pursuit. It was over for this fella, too. Peters, of course, has been steeped in boxing promotion since Paul and his fellow MVP chief, Nakisa Bidarian, were in nappies.
Taylor lands a right hand on Serrano in the 10th and final round. Ed Mulholland / INPHO Ed Mulholland / INPHO / INPHO
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