Most Helpful Promotions (MVP) and Netflix introduced Taylor vs. Serrano 3, the extremely anticipated trilogy bout between Eire’s pound-for-pound nice, undisputed tremendous light-weight champion Katie Taylor (24-1, 6 KOs), and Brooklyn’s Puerto Rican boxing trailblazer, unified featherweight world champion Amanda “The Actual Deal” Serrano (47-3-1, 31 KOs).
This historic struggle, an MVP occasion, will stream stay globally, solely on Netflix at no extra price to its 300+ million subscribers on Friday, July 11 from Madison Sq. Backyard (MSG) in New York Metropolis. Taylor vs. Serrano 3 headlines the first-ever all girls’s skilled boxing card on the iconic venue, airing stay on Netflix because the MVP continues its dedication to elevating girls within the sport.
Taylor vs. Serrano 3 marks the third chapter in considered one of boxing’s fiercest rivalries, pitting the game’s two largest feminine stars towards one another as soon as extra in a girls’s tremendous light-weight undisputed championship struggle contested over 10, two-minute rounds. Their first conflict in April 2022 made historical past as the primary girls’s struggle to headline Madison Sq. Backyard, incomes world acclaim and successful Sports activities Illustrated’s Struggle of the 12 months and The Ring’s Occasion of the 12 months for 2022. Taylor vs. Serrano was additionally nominated for Sports activities Enterprise Journal’s Occasion of the 12 months, a testomony to the worldwide attain and energy of the occasion. Their rematch at AT&T Stadium in November 2024, streamed on Netflix, shattered data with 74 million common viewers globally, turning into the most-watched girls’s sporting occasion in U.S. historical past and was named the 2024 Ladies’s Struggle of the 12 months by ESPN, Sports activities Illustrated, and Boxing Scene. Now, ESPN’s pound-for-pound #2 Taylor and #3 Serrano return to The Backyard the place their rivalry started, with all of Taylor’s undisputed tremendous light-weight belts on the road once more. This occasion, promoted by Most Helpful Promotions, underscores a groundbreaking dedication to girls’s boxing throughout Ladies’s Historical past Month, not solely that includes the first-ever all-women’s card in MSG historical past but in addition setting a brand new monetary normal for feminine fighters with Taylor and Serrano set to obtain record-breaking purses, persevering with to lift the benchmark because the highest-paid feminine fighters of all time. Pre-sale ticket signups can be found now HERE, with the official on-sale date to be introduced quickly.
Irish sensation Katie Taylor (24-1, 6 KOs) seems to be so as to add one other outstanding chapter to her unimaginable boxing profession as she takes on Amanda Serrano for the third time in a historic trilogy. Taylor, a Matchroom fighter and Olympic gold medalist from Bray, Eire, defeated Serrano at a sold-out Madison Sq. Backyard in April 2022 in a shocking struggle of the 12 months contest that noticed Taylor efficiently defend her then-undisputed light-weight title. The struggle cemented Taylor and Serrano as the 2 highest-paid girls in fight sports activities historical past, every incomes seven-figure purses. Taylor’s reign continued because the pair confronted off once more of their November 2024 rematch, the place she edged Serrano in an in depth choice once more setting viewership data. Taylor first received the undisputed light-weight title at Madison Sq. Backyard towards Belgian Delfine Persoon in 2019, then turned a two-weight undisputed champion in November 2023, overcoming Chantelle Cameron in a rematch of their first intently fought battle in April 2023, with each fights going down at a sold-out 3Arena in Dublin, Eire. Taylor first received her arms on world honors in her seventh professional struggle, claiming the vacant WBA Light-weight title in Cardiff towards Anahi Sanchez in October 2017, and has been in 18 straight world title contests since that evening. Her trilogy struggle with Serrano now guarantees to raise girls’s boxing additional, headlining an all-women’s card that displays her long-standing mission to develop the game.
“I need to thank everybody at Matchroom, MVP and Netflix for getting the trilogy over the road and I can’t wait to headline at MSG once more in July,” stated Katie Taylor. “I’m 2 and 0 towards Amanda however it’s clearly a really particular rivalry that delivers each time we step within the ring so I feel it’s solely proper that we now have the trilogy. The environment for the primary struggle there was superb and I’m positive it received’t be any completely different this time round. The numbers that received to see the final struggle in November have been unimaginable so hopefully these individuals will all need to tune in for the trilogy struggle as properly and we will ship one other nice struggle.”
Amanda “The Actual Deal” Serrano (47-3-1, 31 KOs) is the first-ever Puerto Rican undisputed world champion and probably the most adorned fighter in girls’s boxing historical past, acknowledged by the Guinness World Information for probably the most boxing world championships received by a feminine in numerous weight courses. Serrano is Most Helpful Promotions’ first signee, who just lately signed the primary ever lifetime fight sports activities contract with MVP and can turn into Chairwoman of MVP’s girls’s boxing initiatives to guide the corporate’s efforts in figuring out, signing, growing and advertising and marketing the promotion’s rising roster of feminine athletes submit her in-ring retirement. Serrano confronted off towards Katie Taylor for the primary time at Madison Sq. Backyard in 2022. Following the historic bout, Serrano defeated Sarah Mahfoud and Erika Cruz en-route to turning into the undisputed featherweight champion. She efficiently defended her undisputed title in August 2023 towards Heather Hardy earlier than making historical past once more, defeating Danila Ramos in October 2023 within the first-ever girls’s unified world championship contested over 12 three-minute rounds — equal to a males’s championship struggle. She threw a career-high 1,103 punches within the bout, solidifying her standing as a trailblazer for gender equality in boxing. In recognition of her achievements inside and outdoors the ring, Serrano was named the Boxing Writers Affiliation of America (BWAA) Feminine Fighter of the 12 months for 2023, in addition to Sports activities Illustrated’s and Boxing Scene’s 2023 Ladies’s Fighter of the 12 months. She continued her dominance in July 2024, scoring a second-round knockout victory over Stevie Morgan in a brilliant light-weight bout.
Serrano went on to face Katie Taylor in probably the most anticipated girls’s boxing rematch in fashionable historical past within the co-main occasion of MVP’s Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson card on Netflix in November 2024. The undisputed tremendous light-weight title struggle resulted in a razor-thin choice victory for Taylor — sparking world debate and skyrocketing Serrano’s social following by over 1.2 million, making her the most-followed feminine boxer on the planet. #Serrano additionally trended at #2 on X within the U.S., Brazil, Spain, and Canada post-fight, additional cementing her standing as a worldwide icon. Serrano now brings her relentless energy and unparalleled resume again to Madison Sq. Backyard to command the world’s consideration as soon as once more on Netflix, breaking obstacles for ladies in fight sports activities and setting the stage for this historic trilogy atop an all-women’s mega-event.
“I promised my followers they might see this trilogy, and I’m extremely grateful that we get to finish our journey the place all of it started — at Madison Sq. Backyard, stay on Netflix for the world to see,” stated Amanda Serrano. “I’m disenchanted that Katie Taylor didn’t maintain her phrase and make the trilogy 12 three-minute rounds, equal to the boys. This can be a record-setting payday for each of us, and we owed it to the followers to honor the handshake deal we made. She didn’t. However make no mistake, each time we share the ring, it’s conflict, and I do know Friday, July 11, would be the best but as a result of I’ll lastly get the official W I deserve. Headlining an all-female card at MSG, representing each New York and Puerto Rico, is one thing I by no means thought can be attainable, and it wouldn’t be with out Nakisa Bidarian, Jake Paul, and MVP’s dedication to elevating girls’s boxing. I’m proud to face alongside all of the proficient girls on this card, and I hope our struggle evokes younger ladies in all places to maintain believing in themselves and by no means cease chasing their desires.”
“That is greater than only a struggle — it’s a celebration of the unequalled expertise of girls in boxing,” stated Jake Paul and Nakisa Bidarian, co-founders of Most Helpful Promotions. “Amanda Serrano and Katie Taylor have already shattered obstacles and impressed tens of millions, and this trilogy struggle on the iconic Madison Sq. Backyard shall be one other historic step ahead for ladies’s sports activities. This all-women’s card isn’t solely a testomony to how far the game has come but in addition the start of an excellent higher push from MVP to raise the following era of feminine fighters. Not like different incumbents in boxing, we now have, are, and can all the time champion girls as equals to males, treating them with supreme respect and we are going to by no means compromise on these values. Thanks to Netflix and MSG. We’re honored to carry this groundbreaking occasion to life and stay steadfast in our mission to construct and put money into lasting alternatives for ladies in boxing. This occasion is the definition of W.”
“Taylor-Serrano 2 was not simply one of the vital thrilling fights I’ve ever witnessed; it additionally made historical past because the most-watched skilled girls’s sports activities occasion within the US,” stated Bela Bajaria, Netflix’s Chief Content material Officer. “At Netflix we’re proud to proceed to raise the profile of girls athletes and to carry one other historic occasion to our world viewers with MVP.”
“Madison Sq. Backyard has been house to the largest boxing matches in historical past – together with the ‘Struggle of the Century,’ and the 2022 bout between Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano,” stated Joel Fisher, Government Vice President, Marquee Occasions and Operations, MSG Leisure. “We’re proud to welcome these extraordinary athletes again to The World’s Most Well-known Enviornment for an additional historic second with our first-ever all-female skilled boxing card.”
