New York: Boxer Katie Taylor writes history in Madison Square Garden

Katie Taylor not only defended her World Cup belts in the spectacle in the Madison Square Garden. With opponent Amanda Serrano, the Irish also set a sign for all boxers in the world.

The legendary Madison Square cooked when Katie Taylor jumped onto the ring ropes and shouted out her joy. The makeshift laceration over the right eye of the Irish box queen testified by spectacular ten rounds, at the end of which Taylor remained undisputed world champion, but had also won all other boxers in the world.

"Look what we have just done!", A drained Taylor (35) Minutes after her conceivably tight point victory against Amanda Serrano from Puerto Rico, through which you keep your lightweight title after the version of the associations WBA, WBC, IBF and WBO : "We sold the Madison Square Garden. The biggest struggle in the history of the women's boxing."

Germany's former show boxer Regina Halmich also underlined the importance of the moment as an expert on the DAZN microphone: "It was the hoped -for advertising for women's boxing and exceeded all expectations," said the 45 -year -old. And she wasn't wrong. In the first main fight of two women in the 140-year history of the "Garden" in New York, the two fighter women provided a show from the very finest in front of 19,187 spectators.

Taylor, who had been seen as underdog before the fight despite her title, had to survive Schlimme Schlagenhagel. In the fifth round, Serrano, two years younger, occasionally active in the cage, had brought Taylor to the edge of a knockout defeat with numerous fighters. Blood flowed uncontrollably from Taylor's nose and the cut over the eye, but she bit through and took control again in the last rounds.

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After the success of the first edition, this is now in the boxing, a second part could follow soon. "Let's do it again, Amanda," Taylor said in her victory interview. Serrano, who had already held the World Cup title in seven (!) Different weight classes and whose only defeat from 2012 had been moved to date, was immediately there: "Whenever she wants."