KATIE TAYLOR VS. AMANDA SERRANO 3 FINAL PRESS CONFERENCE QUOTES

KATIE TAYLOR VS. AMANDA SERRANO 3 FINAL PRESS CONFERENCE QUOTES

THE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED TRILOGY BOUT AND GLOBAL LIVE SPORTS EVENT WILL STREAM EXCLUSIVELY ON NETFLIX ON FRIDAY, JULY 11 at 8 PM ET / 5 PM PT

On Wednesday at The Theater at Madison Square Garden, Ireland’s undisputed super lightweight champion Katie Taylor (24-1, 6 KOs), and Brooklyn’s Puerto Rican boxing trailblazer, unified featherweight world champion Amanda “The Real Deal” Serrano (47-3-1, 31 KOs) came face to face at the final Most Valuable Promotions (MVP) and Netflix press conference before their historic bout. 

Fighters across the main and preliminary cards participated in the press conference, including undisputed super featherweight champion Alycia “The Bomb” Baumgardner (15-1, 7 KOs) and undefeated WBA Interim world champion, Spain’s Jennifer Miranda (12-0, 1 KO), who will face off in the co-main event of the first-ever all women’s professional boxing card at MSG. Additional fighters in attendance included Savannah Marshall, Shadasia Green, Ellie Scotney, Yamileth Mercado, Cherneka Johnson, Shurretta “Chiccn” Metcalf, Ramla Ali,  Lila Furtado, Jessica Camara, Tamm Thibeault, and Mary Casamassa. 

MVP CEO and co-founder Nakisa Bidarian also took the stage tonight to announce a $250,000 performance bonus for the fight of the night on Friday’s highly anticipated card. The winner of the bonus will be selected by Bidarian, fellow MVP co-founder Jake Paul, and boxing legend Laila Ali. If the trio cannot reach a unanimous decision, Ali will have the final say on who receives the bonus.

Hosted by renowned combat sports journalist Ariel Helwani, the fighters had plenty to say at the press conference about their upcoming matchups. See quotes below and view the full press conference on Netflix’s YouTube and MVP’s YouTube.

Amanda Serrano Quotes

On Katie’s demeanor at the last press conference…

“I’m never surprised. You just never know with this, we have our breaking points and I guess we were at our wits ends with it. And obviously she has her opinion, her team has their opinion. I have my opinion, my teams, the fans, the people who saw had their own opinion. So it’s good.”

On changing her approach to this fight…

“I’m going to use my head—but not the way it was used on me. We’re just going to be smarter. We’re going to be smarter, work smarter. I did work a lot smarter for this fight and I believe that we can come out victorious. We will come out victorious.”

On the concerns of her cut from the previous fight..

“If I had concerns, I would not take the fight. I’m a warrior. I’m going to get in there. If that cut happens, we’re prepared. You saw what I did. I fought to the very end and the last fight and I will do it again and over and over again if I have to. I’m a warrior.”

On the possibility of a fourth fight…

“No, I don’t think so. I’m kind of tired of Katie Taylor. We have great, great moments together. We have great fights together, but hey, two is better than one, right? She’ll have two and I’ll have one so she can live with that.”

On Katie Taylor not accepting three-minute fights…

“If she knew she was the dictator and the champion, she should have never accepted the challenge or shook my hand on it, but it is what it is. We’re going to go off in two minutes.”

On rebuilding her confidence after the previous loss…

“Losing is never fun, but you only lose if you feel like you lost. And I didn’t feel like I lost. My

team told me I didn’t lose. They’re proud of me, so I’m okay. Like Jake Paul says: ‘You turn that L into a W.”

On what it would mean to win in her hometown at Madison Square Garden…

“It truly will be an amazing feeling when everything comes together. And yeah, to bring those belts back over the bridge will be really cool.”

Katie Taylor Quotes

On the narratives being put out in the media since the last fight…

“I have my own opinion about the stuff that Amanda has been saying on our team, but the
fact is I am 2-0 against her. Opinions are opinions, but facts are facts and you can’t get away from those facts. And yeah, I guess I’m just tired of the complaining and the whining from Amanda’s team. I’m going into this fight already beating Amanda and I plan to stay beating her. I plan to stay 3-0 come this Friday night.”

On definitively beating Amanda Serrano for a third time…

“I feel like people haven’t seen the best me yet and I can’t wait to showcase that on Friday night. I can definitely make the fight a lot easier for myself and I just can’t wait to step in there now and actually perform. I know that I can’t perform and produce the best performance of my career.”

On why she’s taking this fight again in response to Amanda’s direct question…

“I’m taking the fight again because I love the challenge of this. I want to take the best fights. It doesn’t really matter to me, I just want to take the biggest challenges, the biggest fights in women’s boxing and after the last fight, this was still the biggest fight in women’s boxing. So that’s why I’m taking it. Why not take the challenge again? I believe that I can beat [Amanda] again. That’s why I have taken the fight again.”

On the possibility of a fourth fight…

“Well, I am taking the third fight. If she wants a fourth fight, I’ll take it as well. But we’ll see what happens. Let’s just focus on Friday night.”

On not accepting three-minute rounds this fight…

“Well, because I won the second fight, I think it would’ve been a lot different if she was a champion, like I said in the last press conference. She’s not in a position to dictate the terms of the fight. I’m the champion, she’s not.

On this fight being different from the other two…

“This fight is even bigger than the last two. And to be headlining such a huge card, an all female card, is an absolute privilege. It’s an amazing situation. I actually dreamt of as a kid to be in this position, headline a big show like this, [and] headline a show full of these amazing women behind me. It is an absolute privilege to be in this position and I just thank God that I’m here and I’m two days away from making history again.”

On how it feels to be closing the trilogy with Amanda…

“This is a history-making event. The sport is in a position where we’re headlining a top-quality all-female card. Every single female fighter here is an outstanding fighter. We’re going to see the best of women’s boxing on Friday night. It’s going to be live on Netflix for the whole world to see. This is a huge moment for women’s sport. I think just being in this position for myself and Amanda is probably the biggest accomplishment of our lives.”