Comments Thread For: Taylor-Serrano Classic Shatters Boxing's Glass Ceiling

[Hugekcoc]

I think we know now who is the gwoat. Katie Taylor is the best we've ever seen in the female code.

[Smash]

There aren't enough women boxers with the talent to keep me watching. These two ladies are the rare exception.

This is exactly the issue, talent pool is not deep enough to get rivalries going etc but the top girls can fight well, i mean taylor persoon fights were wars & the serrano fight was very good, so it can be done with the right opponents and enough of them, female tennis players are paid the same as men for less sets because the fans want to see them and its an international sport with a long history, womens boxing is a niche sport and only came to the olympics 10 years ago i think

[BoxingIsGreat]

I won’t say Taylor looked out of her class. But let’s not make equally ridiculous statements such as Katie was staggering Amanda lol

That's literally what I saw in some of the later rounds. Amanda coming forward and eating some hard punches, staggering backwards. Katie is a big dog, yo!

[TernceBudCharlo]

The bold is so wrong like you have no clue what you are watching. Katie grew big balls and was staggering Amanda backwards for a good while in some of the rounds. Your assessment is off.

Many 'experts' hate to admit they were wrong.

She did grow big balls and was staggering her every time rounds 7-10. Credit to sereno to keep coming forward. But even round 10 where compubox was having serano land more, Katie rolled w most of those punches while Amanda was getting hit flush. Easy fight to score for me, Taylor clearly took 7-10.

[Monty Fisto]

Men are way better than women at tennis too, thats just the way things are & women dont play best of 5 sets which is grueling in the sport but get paid the same for best of 3 sets, not bad for women in that sport actually, btw i like womens tennis too but u cant expect power like the men have in either sport because women are built differently, they have to bear children

Best of five sets clearly is more gruelling than three, no question, but it is a bit of a red herring. If you take an event like Wimbledon or the US Open, the players are paid out a pot from the revenue of the tournament as a whole. The women's game is just as much a part of Wimbledon or the US Open as the men's. You can't unpick who should get paid more from that. I think the move to equal earnings for the men and women was the right thing to do. There was something dodgy about superstars like Martina Navratilova, Chris Evert, Steffi Graf and Monica Seles earnings less for winning a championship than players like Pat Cash or Michael Chang.

[Smash]

Best of five sets clearly is more gruelling than three, no question, but it is a bit of a red herring. If you take an event like Wimbledon or the US Open, the players are paid out a pot from the revenue of the tournament as a whole. The women's game is just as much a part of Wimbledon or the US Open as the men's. You can't unpick who should get paid more from that. I think the move to equal earnings for the men and women was the right thing to do. There was something dodgy about superstars like Martina Navratilova, Chris Evert, Steffi Graf and Monica Seles earnings less for winning a championship than players like Pat Cash or Michael Chang.

Yes good point, the tournament is integrated for the men and women. I could be wrong but i remember hearing that some of he men actually dont want to do 5 sets anymore and want to go best of 3 like the women, its tough going playing like that every 2 days if matches go long

[Coachcody]

Great fight for sure!
DAZN did a great telecast.
.....But I wish it was on network television so a larger audience could have watched.

[STREET CLEANER]

Great event, legit fight and the fight itself was a great fight with ebbs and flow.

Bob Arum has to eat his word saying that nobody cared about women's boxing.

[TinAgeOfBoxing]

Like watching children fight but at least it was not a fixed fight like so many of the guy fights. That alone makes it better than Fury/Whyte, Valdez/Stevenson and most Mike Tyson fights.