On the night of April 30 to May 1 in New York (USA) a historic boxing evening from Matchroom will take place – for the first time, the main event of a boxing event at the legendary Madison Square Garden arena will be a women’s duel.
Today the procedure of official weighing of participants and participants took place.
The current undisputed lightweight champion from Ireland Katie Taylor (20-0, 6 KOs) showed on the scales 61.1 kg. Her rival from Puerto Rico, Amanda Serrano (42-1-1, 30 KOs), the only champion in the history of women’s boxing in seven weight categories, turned out to be slightly lighter – 60.6 kg.
Before that, former world champions in the first middleweight (up to 69.9 kg) American Jesse Vargas (29-3-2, 11 KOs) and Briton Liam Smith (30-3-1, 17 KOs) will enter the ring.
Vargas weight – 69.4 kg. Smith’s weight 69.9 kg.
As part of the show, there will be another fight for the title of absolute champion – in the second middleweight (up to 76.2 kg) it will be challenged by American Franchon Crews-Dizurn (7-1, 2 KOs) and Elin Cederros (8-0, 4 KOs) from Sweden.
WBC/WBO title holder Krews-Dizurn showed 75.7 kg. Cederros, who holds WBA/IBF titles, 76.1 kg.
Live stream Kathy Taylor – Amanda Serrano. Watch online
