Amanda Serrano goes to wish some stitches, and possibly an excellent plastic surgeon, after she left the ring with a gaping wound over her proper eyebrow following an epic battle with Katie Taylor on Friday night time.
As a lot because the lower might damage, Serrano shedding a controversial determination to Taylor of their rematch definitely stings much more. Regardless of touchdown extra punches all through the combat, Serrano in the end fell to Taylor for a second time after believing she deserved the nod of their first encounter as properly two years in the past.
Afterwards, Serrano posted a photograph revealing a closeup of the lower on her eyebrow.
Of their second encounter, Serrano got here out weapons blazing however she took her first actual injury after a conflict of heads induced the lower to open over her proper eye. Replays confirmed the it was Taylor’s head that induced the injury reasonably than a punch with the referee informing the judges scoring the combat.
Because the motion continued, Taylor was admonished a number of occasions for repeated head butts with the referee lastly deducting some extent late within the combat for the quite a few fouls.
Whereas she took the loss in stride contemplating her emotions in regards to the determination, Serrano acknowledged afterwards that she believed Taylor’s actions have been intentional as a result of she does the identical factor in all of her fights.
“I feel one hundred pc [it was on purpose],” Serrano mentioned. “As a result of she does it each combat.”
The ugly lower undoubtedly affected Serrano within the combat as she stored favoring that aspect of her face throughout most of the largest exchanges.
It was an unlucky set of circumstances for Serrano, particularly contemplating how many individuals watching the combat saying that she deserved the win. Regardless of now falling to 0-2 within the rivalry, it appeared nearly all people — together with Taylor — have been open for a trilogy so maybe Serrano will get an opportunity to run it again and try and make it proper subsequent time.
