FILE PHOTO: Boxing - Katie Taylor v Firuza Sharipova - WBC, WBA, IBF and WBO World Female Lightweight Titles - Echo Arena, Liverpool, Britain - December 11, 2021 Katie Taylor after her win against Firuza Sharipova Action Images via Reuters/Andrew Couldridge
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Katie Taylor battled her way into Irish sporting immortality on Saturday, outlasting one of the most powerful fighters in the world's most famous arena in the biggest fight in the history of women's boxing.
There appears to be no hyperbole unworthy of the undefeated, undisputed lightweight world champion, who slugged through 10 rounds against Puerto Rico's Amanda Serrano at Madison Square Garden, an iconic arena they were the first women to headline.
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