Taylor and Serrano. The inevitable trilogy

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On Friday night, in one of boxing’s oldest and most storied colosseums, Madison Square Gardens, New York, Katie Taylor will meet Amanda Serrano for the third and probably final time. It is a venue dripping in history – from LaMotta versus Robinson, Louis and Marciano to Lewis and Holyfield and the fight of the century, Ali versus Frazier in 1971 – ‘The Garden’ has seen it all.

The trilogy bout between the two veterans is likely to confirm their own place alongside those illustrious pairings. Taylor and Serrano first boxed in 2022 in a fight widely considered one of the greatest contests in women’s boxing history at this same venue and their rematch in late 2024 was equally compelling and ferociously fought. A ferocity that made this trilogy bout inevitable and hotly anticipated.

Markets are available for those looking to profit from the action and the fight, promoted by Jake Paul’s MVP Promotions, will be freely available to Netflix subscribers.

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July 11, 2025 0

Can’t Fight Won’t Fight.

Jake Paul battles Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.

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Speculating on outcomes for fights involving Jake Paul can feel like a type of betrayal. First to the sport he subverts with these pseudo-exhibition bouts and secondly, because his opponents often appear inhibited, inept or both and uniformly unable to punch the self-styled ‘Problem Child’ in the face.

This weekend, the 28-year-old with the huge social profile will again employ that notoriety to headline as a boxing attraction in Anaheim, California versus the rotting carcass of the former WBC Middleweight Champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. Like his predecessors as Paul fall guys, Mike Tyson luminous among a parade of otherwise unknown stuntmen, Chavez has the usual impediments required to secure the lucrative pay day.

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July 7, 2025 0

Rusty Iron Mike faces Problem Child Jake Paul

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At the AT&T Stadium, Arlington, Texas on Saturday night, heavyweight legend Iron Mike Tyson will box Jake Paul in a fully sanctioned contest to determine who the bigger fool is; the 58-year-old Tyson clambering back between the ropes, the 27-year-old You Tube star Paul daring to tangle with even a decrepit husk of the once impervious former champion or we the viewing public simply for tuning in.

For those willing to indulge this circus as the boxing match it proports to be, finding value, form and the advantage one may hold over the other – in the way conventional fights are analysed and previewed – is further complicated by the unknowns of Tyson’s inevitable decline and Paul’s peculiar path to this bout.

Bookmakers are in consensus that Jake Paul is the favourite – widely available at around 4/9 for the OUTRIGHT WIN, with Mike Tyson therefore available as a 2/1 underdog.

This conclusion is broadly drawn on one single metric. Youth.

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November 13, 2024 0

What’s going on? Fury, KSI and a night in the MisFits abyss

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I suppose Marvin Gaye didn’t really care about Cassius Clay recording an album at Columbia Records in 1963 or Smokin’ Joe Frazier singing First Round Knockout for Motown in 1975. Hard to imagine Marlon Brando was unduly concerned that Jake LaMotta played the bartender in The Hustler or that Tupac worried about Nigel Benn’s collaboration with Pack on the 1990 song Stand and Fight. It only made 61 in the UK Charts after all.

And so, perhaps, boxing, the sprawling, dimly lit dystopia that it is, shouldn’t worry too much about MisFits and the entertainment it imparts to those dimly lit enough to pay for it. Aside from the copious amounts of money MisFits boxing generates it also appears uniquely able to both entice the casual and enrage the aficionados with the ease of a Bill Nighy suit fitting.

The weekend’s bill in Manchester showcased two of the niche’s preeminent forces; Tommy Fury, famous for sharing a father with Tyson Fury and his appearance on a reality show and KSI, who is good at video games and has ‘form’ in this peculiar space. A bizarre schism in which boxing, WWE and the world of YouTube influencers co-exist in an orgy of nonsense.

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October 16, 2023 0

Boxing gargoyle. Jake Paul finally faces Tommy Fury

Article first appeared at Bookmakers.com

On Sunday, beneath the warm Saudi Arabian sky of the nation’s original capital, Diriyah, restored and repurposed as an international destination rich in history and the amenities the wealthy demand, populists Jake Paul and Tommy Fury will attempt to substantiate their credentials and disproportionate public prominence as professional prizefighters. Against each other.

Betting sites are struggling to separate them on the betting line.

The bout is scheduled for eight rounds at an approximated Cruiserweight limit of 185 pounds. 10 pounds higher than Light Heavyweight, the division Fury appears to consider his home, but 15 beneath the current maximum for the division.

These sojourns to the Middle East have become a customary fixture in the boxing calendar, and the region is jostling for position with many of the traditional venues in the West. Diriyah is a location in keeping with the contrived nature of the contest. There is incontrovertible opportunism in the construction of this fight.

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