Katie Taylor vs Amanda Serrano rematch, followed by Jake Paul vs Mike Tyson – live | Boxing

On November 16, 2024By Littum

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It’s still early here and at least two hours before Amanda Serrano and Katie Taylor do their ring walks. They are in the best and most meaningful match of the night. Like Bryan, I was at Madison Square Garden in April 2022 when they produced one of the great fights of recent times. The atmosphere in the garden that night was incredible as the Puerto Rican and Irish fans made an exciting racket to match the match itself.

My memory may be playing tricks, and maybe it was pretty quiet two hours before Serrano and Taylor fought in the garden. But I seem to remember the joint jumping with anticipation throughout the build-up.

Here at AT&T Stadium, home of the Dallas Cowboys, the atmosphere is of course a mild hum. People seem relaxed and the arena is about a quarter full at the moment. But so far there is no real sign of any influx of Taylor supporters, either from Ireland or across America. There are also no songs or chants from either the Irish or Puerto Rican contingents. I’m sure they’ll be in full voice soon, but most people I’ve seen look like they’re here for Jake Paul and Mike Tyson’s circus.

But give it another two hours and I think this amazing stadium will be so much noisier and more frantic than it is now…

Fans arrive at AT&T Stadium for Friday night’s boxing card. Photo: Dustin Safranek/EPA

Time for some boxing. India’s Neeraj Goyat and Brazil’s Whindersson Nunes have come to the ring for a six-round middleweight bout after a flashy performance by the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders to AC/DC’s Thunderstruck.

Whindersson Nunes makes his entrance. Photo: Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile/Getty Images

Here’s what’s happened so far. Let’s do some housekeeping before we go ahead and relay the results from the non-televised undercard. We’ve had three games so far in front of a largely empty AT&T Stadium crowd:

Bruce ‘Shu Shu’ Carringtona blue-chip featherweight prospect from Brooklyn signed with Top Rank Promotions, improved to 14 wins in 14 fights with an eight-round unanimous decision win over late replacement Dana Coolwell. The Brownsville native dropped his opponent twice, including in the final round, but Coolwell beat the count and reached the final bell. Carrington won in a complete shutout, with all three ringside judges giving the score 80-70.

Lucas Bahdi moved closer to a world title after the undefeated lightweight prospect handed Italy’s Armando Casamonica his first defeat with a disputed majority decision victory in a closer than expected 10-rounder. The hard-nosed Canadian was met with stiff opposition by late replacement Casamonica, who took the fight on 10 days’ notice when Corey Marksman dropped out with a training injury. One judge had it a reasonable 95-95, while the other two handed high scores of 96-93 and 98-92 to Bahdi.

Shadasia Greenthe former basketball player from Patterson, New Jersey, is the world champion at the second time of asking after winning a razor-thin 10-round split decision over Toronto’s Melinda Watpool for the WBO Women’s Super Middleweight Championship. Two of the three judges scored it for the 35-year-old known as the Sweet Terminator, overruling the third who had it 96-94 for Watpool in a match where there was little to separate the two. Green had come up short in his first title shot last year, dropping a unanimous decision to Franchon Crews Dezurn for the vacant WBC strap.

Preamble

Hello and welcome to AT&T Stadium for a night of games unlike any we can immediately remember. Mike Tyson ends a 7,097-day hiatus from professional fighting to face boxing influencer Jake Paul in a non-title heavyweight bout scheduled for eight rounds at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.

If you’re reading this, it’s unlikely that Tyson needs any introduction. In 1986, at age 20, the Brooklyn native became the youngest heavyweight champion in history, wreaking havoc to Trevor Berbick within two rounds to win the World Boxing Council title. After unifying the other major title belts, the nominal The baddest man on the planet made six defenses of the undisputed heavyweight championship before losing in a historic upset to James ‘Buster’ Douglas by 10th-round knockout in February 1990. Convicted of rape in 1992 and sentenced to six years in prison, Tyson served three years before being released on parole and was never again the same destructive force, closing his professional ledger of six wins and five losses with two no-contests.

While Tyson remains one of the most recognizable people in the world nearly two decades after his last official fight, there are few people under the age of 30 who don’t know Paul. Cultivating a huge public profile on Vine and YouTube alongside older brother Logan, the Cleveland native has managed to develop into a competent boxer since taking up the sport and turning pro in 2020. He has had 11 pay-per-view fights since then, mainly against former mixed martial arts. martial artists and journeyman boxers with the odd retired NBA player. His lone setback came after a split decision to Tommy Fury last year, but he has won four on the trot since then, including a knockout in July of Mike Perry, a veteran of the MMA and bare-knuckle boxing circuit.

Some have called it a circus. But with two world title fights on the televised undercard, including Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano in a long-awaited rematch of their 2022 classic, there’s plenty of value on offer for viewers who aren’t keen on seeing two men 31 years apart trade leather.

The live Netflix broadcast starts in 15 minutes and there will be three preliminary matches before the main event. The order of play will be as follows:

It’s uncertain when Paul and Tyson will step in for the main event, but it won’t be until 22.00 local time. It’s 11pm on the US East Coast and 4am in the UK.

Bryan will be here soon. In the meantime, here’s his explainer with everything you need to know about tonight’s event.

Mike Tyson returns to professional boxing for the first time in nearly two decades Friday night in Texas. The 58-year-old former undisputed heavyweight champion battles YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul in a made-for-Netflix showdown expected to attract a global audience of around 300 million viewers.

But is that all you really need to know? What about the rules, how much they get paid and the *cheque notes* 31-year age difference. Read on for all the answers…

Where and when is the match?

The seven-fight card is held at the 80,000-capacity, $1.2 billion AT&T Stadium. home of the NFL’s Cowboys in Arlington, about 20 miles west of Dallas. It’s hard to pin down an exact time for the main event, but Paul and Tyson won’t be coming in until 7 p.m. 23:00 ET (4:00 GMT).

Where can I see it?

The broadcast will stream live globally on Netflix from 20:00 ET (01:00 GMT) at no additional cost to subscribers. There will be three televised preliminary bouts, including Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano in a highly anticipated rematch of their 2022 classic leading up to the main event. The stream will include live commentary options in English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, French and German.

The first three undercard bouts not carried by the Netflix stream will be available for free on Most Valuable Campaigns YouTube, Netflix Sports YouTube and Tudum starting at 5:30 PM ET (10:30 PM GMT).

Who else is fighting?

Hearn is not alone in calling it a circus. But with two world title fights on the televised undercard, there’s plenty of value on offer for viewers who aren’t keen on seeing two men with more than 30 years between them trade blows. The order of play is as follows:

The best fight on the card by some distance is Taylor’s rematch with Serrano in the defense of all four major title belts at 140 lbs. Their first meeting before a sold-out Madison Square Garden two years ago was a contest of extreme physical and psychological intensity that somehow surpassed the breathless hype that preceded it. My heart was pounding so much I had a headache. If Friday night’s second leg matches it for drama, don’t be surprised if they close the trilogy with a third before 90,000 at Croke Park.