{"id":1079,"date":"2022-02-03T17:57:34","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T17:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gosportsandentertainment.co.uk\/?p=1079"},"modified":"2022-02-03T17:57:34","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T17:57:34","slug":"taylor-and-serrano-press-conference-quotes-from-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gosportsandentertainment.co.uk\/?p=1079","title":{"rendered":"TAYLOR AND SERRANO PRESS CONFERENCE QUOTES FROM NEW YORK \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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February 2, 2022; New York, NY; Eddie Hearn of Matchroom. Undisputed World Lightweight champion Katie Taylor, challenger Amanda Serrano and Jake Paul of MVP pose at the press conference announcing their fight April 30, 2022 at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Mandatory Credit: Michelle Farsi for Matchroom\/MSG Photos<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Pound-for-pound stars meet for the first time ahead of historic showdown on April 30<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Years in the making, the biggest fight\u00a0ever\u00a0in women\u2019s boxing between the pound-for-pound #1 and #2\u00a0fighters of the world is one that will not only make boxing history, but women\u2019s sports history. MSG has hosted thousands of fights through its illustrious years, beginning more than a century ago on July 17, 1882; now, 140 years later, this matchup finally marks the very first time two female fighters are headlining a combat sports event at ‘The World\u2019s Most Famous Arena’.
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Irish icon Taylor (20-0 6 KOs) puts all the Lightweight belts on the line for the sixth time since winning them in June 2019 in a war with Delfine Persoon and seeing off the Belgian in a rematch in England before repelling the challenges of Miriam Gutierrez, Natasha Jonas, Jennifer Han and Firuza Sharipova \u2013 and there\u2019s added spice to the fight as Taylor holds a win over Amanda\u2019s sister Cindy in Boston back in October 2018.
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Puerto Rican sensation Serrano (42-1-1 30 KOs) already has an unrivalled legacy in the sport as a seven-weight World champion. The Brooklyn based champion enters the momentous bout in sparkling form after knocking out Daniela Bermudez last March, dominating Yamileth Mercado in August and overpowering Miriam Gutierrez in two separate cards co-starring Jake Paul. Amanda was the 2021 Female Fighter of the Year for DAZN, ESPN and WBC among others.
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Taylor and Serrano came face-to-face at MSG today for the first time since the fight was announced, and had the following to say:

Katie Taylor \u2013 undisputed World Lightweight champion<\/strong>
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\u201cI\u2019ve had my eyes on Amanda Serrano and this is a fight I\u2019ve been looking forward to for quite some time now.
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\u201cThis is history right here and all of our hard work is going to be paid off for at this time.
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\u201cI think that this fight is the most exciting fight in the sport, not just female boxing. This really is the best fight in boxing right now.
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\u201cWe are both great champions, she has a great record and she\u2019s a great fighter. We have seen the likes of McCaskill and others; but I want to be the best fighter.\u201d
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Amanda Serrano \u2013 seven-weight World champion<\/strong>
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\u201cNo time is better than right now. Happy Women and Girls in Sports Day \u2026 Women, we are changing the sport. I am honored to share the ring with Katie Taylor.
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\u201cI have to thank my coach for not accepting the first couple fights. He knew what I was worth and now we are working with MVP.
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\u201cI don\u2019t need to talk bad about any of my opponents. I do all of my talking inside the ring.
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\u201c13 years, I\u2019ve been professional and every other day I have wanted to quit\u2026 never did I imagine making the money I have today. I mean, headlining MSG, like what?\u201d
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Eddie Hearn – chairman, Matchroom Sport<\/strong>
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\u201cWelcome to the iconic Madison Square Garden here in New York for the history making occasion, April 30 the undisputed women\u2019s lightweight world championship here from the Mecca of boxing MSG. The first time in 140 years of boxing and combat sport history, two females headline here.
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\u201cThis is going to be not just the biggest female fights of all time, but one of the biggest fights of all time. Katie Taylor is a huge draw in Ireland and the UK, Amanda here in the US, both women have headlined on major events around the world.\u00a0\u00a0
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\u201cWe expect to fill up the Garden completely, an unbelievable undercard being planned for April 30 already, two-division world champion Jessie Vargas will take on Liam Smith from Liverpool. The undisputed super-middleweight world championship between Crews-Dezurn and Cederroos also on the card, as well as many more to come.\u00a0
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\u201cThank you to everyone for their support, this feels like an iconic moment for the sport in boxing, a moment that a lot of us have worked very hard towards. As Jake said earlier, to those great fighters that have come before them, for now we celebrate Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano who will make history here at Madison Square Garden on April 30.\u201d\u00a0
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Jake Paul – co-founder of Most Valuable Promotions, professional boxer and content creator<\/strong>
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\u201cWhat an honor to be here at the historic Madison Square Garden, I want to give a big thanks to Jim Dolan and the entire MSG team for making history with us \u2013 for real.
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\u201cWomen have been boxing since the early 1900\u2019s but it wasn\u2019t until 1999 that they were able to compete professionally. 23 years later here we are with one of the biggest fights ever headlined by two women at Madison Square Garden.
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\u201cToday is about Amanda and Katie, the two best female boxers in the world right now, they deserve this stage, this historic payday and they deserve to settle who is the pound for pound best which is why I\u2019m excited to see this fight.
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\u201cIt\u2019s also about Anne Wolf, Christine Martin, Leila Ali, Mia St. John and so many other legendary boxers that helped lay the foundations for the ladies to be sitting here today. It\u2019s about Clarissa Shields, Mikaela Mayer, Alycia Baumgardner and other amazing professionals currently in the sport. Most of all it\u2019s about the future young women and girls all around the world who will see April 30 as a moment that made the impossible, possible, equality as it\u2019s meant to be.\u201d
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\u201cIt\u2019s an honor to be here with Eddie Hearn, Matchroom Boxing, DAZN, MSG, we\u2019re grateful to Katie Taylor and here team to commit to taking this fight. Of course, most of all we\u2019re proud to stand with Amanda Serrano, the superstar, a woman who has dedicated her life to boxing. Now it\u2019s time to start showing the commitment she has made and show the world how important women\u2019s boxing is to people like bob Arum who misspoke earlier this week. He\u2019s going to eat his words April 30 and see how impactful this fight, I\u2019m excited to be here and let\u2019s make history.
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\u201cI\u2019m a fight fan, I fell in love with boxing and I\u2019m passionate about boxing all the way around. When I met Amanda Serrano and I heard her story and how hard she\u2019s worked, I see how hard she is trained, she\u2019s getting paid pennies on the dollar and being taken advantage of from people in her career. She needed help and guidance, to be put on a pedestal \u2013 she\u2019s a superstar.\u00a0 I\u2019m excited to be promotor Paul and we might be sitting next to each other a few more times in the future. I\u2019ll always be involved in this sport and pushing to make boxing a better place.\u201d
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Joe Markowski \u2013 EVP, DAZN<\/strong>
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\u201cFor us it\u2019s an absolutely perfect event, you\u2019ve got two top pound-for-pound women\u2019s boxers in the world, for our UK and Irish business this is a huge opportunity and of course in the US as well. This is part of a really strong spring schedule that hopefully working with Matchroom and Golden Boy we\u2019ll be able to add to in the coming weeks.\u201d
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\u201cA huge opportunity for us, a lot of noise gets made about this being a historic women\u2019s boxing event, for us this just makes great business sense. It\u2019s a huge opportunity for the sport and women\u2019s sport more broadly to stop, acknowledge and celebrate the progress that is being made in women\u2019s sport.\u201d
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\u201cYourself [Eddie] and Matchroom have been long-time supporters of that, I think everything that Jake, Nakisa and MVP are doing to back this is going to bring long overdue eyeballs. We know from our broader global business outside of boxing that when the media and industries around sport gets behind women\u2019s sport, eyeballs come, and they stay. The quality of competition is akin to men\u2019s sport in the vast majority of cases.\u201d
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\u201cWe\u2019re extremely excited about it, I think there\u2019s a huge opportunity for all of us up here and the people we work with within our own businesses and our partners to use the next two months to push this to become a moment in time and a celebration \u2013 everyone at DAZN will be working towards that.\u201d\u00a0
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Joel Fisher\u00a0– EVP, MSG Marquee Events<\/strong>
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\u201cThe reception and reaction to the fight when it was announced was incredible, everyone\u2019s been really supportive, so I want to thank everyone for that. There\u2019s no better place for this fight then Madison Square Garden, to make history, this is a long overdue fight and is the Mecca of boxing. This is where all the famous fighters, the biggest fights in the world have taken place, this is history, we are talking about history.\u201d
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\u201cI\u2019m sure that this fight between Amanda and Katie is going to really be something else, something to behold, it\u2019s not only a great fight and history, the first time headlining the Garden, it\u2019s just a great fight that people in boxing want to see. Forget about women just in general, this is just a great fight and it\u2019s going to be a tremendous night.\u201d<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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