Katie Taylor vs. Amanda Serrano booked for historic trilogy bout this summer

After two tremendous Fight of the Year contenders, Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano are set to do it all again.

Taylor and Serrano will share the ring for the third time in a battle for Taylor’s undisputed super lightweight championship on Friday, July 11, at Madison Square Garden in New York. The bout was announced Thursday by Jake Paul’s Most Valuable Promotions.

Netflix, which streamed the second Taylor vs. Serrano fight as part of the Mike Tyson vs. Jake Paul undercard, will also show the trilogy contest.

Taylor vs. Serrano 3 will headline an all-female fight card, with further bouts to be confirmed.

Ireland’s Taylor and Puerto Rico’s Serrano first met in April 2022, when they sold out Madison Square Garden with an undisputed lightweight title fight that was widely considered one of the best fights of the year. That first fight brought the women’s side of the sport to the forefront of the boxing conversation – and on a night when they were competing with a male unification fight between Shakur Stevenson and Oscar Valdez on ESPN.

On that occasion, Taylor won a split-decision over Serrano to retain her undisputed lightweight title. The two were then given an even bigger stage for their rematch, a co-main event spot to Paul vs. Tyson, which was the most-watched boxing event in the world in 2024.

The women once again proved they belonged on such a platform, trading leather for 20 minutes to produce a spectacular slugfest, with Taylor once again being declared the winner by a single point on all three scorecards.

This time, however, the decision was much more controversial. A large portion of fans felt that Serrano deserved the nod over Taylor. And so on July 11, they will settle the score once and for all in the first major trilogy of fights in women’s boxing history.

Taylor vs. Serrano will join a select list of trilogies where both the first and second fights were won by the same fighter. The most recent high-profile example of this is the three fights between Tyson Fury and Derek Chisora between 2011 and 2022, with all three fights being won by Fury.

In the case of Fury-Chisora, there was hardly a need for a third fight. It’s a very different situation between Taylor and Serrano, especially after the controversy following their second meeting.

A better comparison for Taylor vs. Serrano would be the Alan Minter-Kevin Finnegan trilogy in the 1970s. Minter and Finnegan boxed three times in three consecutive years. Although Minter won the first two, the judges’ decision in the second bout was controversial — much like Taylor vs. Serrano II — and so there was little complaint when a third fight was made.

The second fight between Taylor and Serrano smashed prior women’s boxing viewership numbers, drawing an estimated 74 million average viewers on Netflix this past November.