SPORT NEWS: Katie Taylor vs. Amanda Serrano sets record as most-streamed women’s sports event in U.S. history.giang

Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano’s fight last Friday has become the most streamed women’s sporting event in U.S. history.

Taylor won the fight thanks to a unanimous, but narrow, decision. The event’s promoter Most Valuable Promotions (MVP) described the event as a “record-breaking night for Netflix”. The seven-fight card also featuring an eight-round decision win for Jake Paul, 27, against ex-heavyweight world boxing champion, Mike Tyson, 58, in the main event.

The promotional company said the Taylor vs. Serrano fight, a rematch from their 2022 duel which Taylor also won, averaged an estimated 74 million live viewers globally. MVP claims this ensures the fight “became the most-watched professional women’s sports event in US history with 47 million AMA (average-minute audience) in the US”.

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Though Taylor retained her unified and undisputed WBA, WBC, WBO, and IBF light welterweight world titles with the decision win over Serrano, Compubox data sent to Mirror U.S. Sports indicates Serrano was superior when it came to punch statistics.

Taylor landed 217 of her 529 shots for a 41 percent accuracy rate. Serrano, meanwhile, connected with 324 of her 734 shots for a 44.1 percent accuracy. Serrano, therefore, threw more shots, landed more, and also landed far more shots to the body.

Not everybody was able to see the Serrano vs. Taylor rematch from start to finish, though, as Netflix crashed during the co-main event, leaving viewers furious. It is unclear how this would have impacted viewing figures as the former NFL star Antonio Brown streamed the fight on X from his suite inside Jerry World, and said later that his stream attracted 7.7 million live viewers.

Victory for Taylor in the rematch advanced her pro boxing record to 24 wins (6 KOs) against one defeat to Chantelle Cameron in May, 2023, which she immediately avenged six months later. Serrano, meanwhile, slipped to 47 wins (31 KOs) against three losses.

The prominent fighters had, ahead of their second fight Friday, teased a third installment of their rivalry regardless of who won in Texas. Serrano is a proponent of equal treatment of men’s and women’s fights, and wants women’s fights to adhere to 12 x 3-minute rounds, like how it is for championship boxing for men. Women’s championship bouts are currently 10 x 2-minute rounds, like what her two fights with Taylor have been.

“We sold out Madison Square Garden, and made seven figures,” Amanda Serrano said of her first fight with Taylor in New York, two years ago, during a head-to-head promo for Netflix. “It was fight of the year,” Katie Taylor said.

Serrano then suggested they agree to a trilogy bout using 12 x 3-minute rounds. “It’s amazing to have a great dance partner … to do what women can do. I did it, and we can do it again,” Serrano said.

The two fighters shook hands on a third chapter in their ongoing combat sports story.