Article 6YM32 When women fight: Taylor v Serrano and the meaning of choice in the ring

When women fight: Taylor v Serrano and the meaning of choice in the ring

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Tess Crain
from US news | The Guardian on (#6YM32)

The first all-female card at MSG ended with a quiet finale to a great trilogy. But its legacy is loud: a reckoning with risk, glory, and the radical idea that women can choose both

There are two salient pictures of the Katie Taylor-Amanda Serrano trilogy: Taylor walking to the ring on Friday night under the green, orange and white bars of light, her neck like a tree trunk, eyes fixed ahead with stoic grandeur as Even Though I Walk played overhead - and the image, hours earlier, of Yulihan Luna bloodied and bruised, standing beside a ring girl whose hoisted breasts had been shellacked in oil, smiling rigidly at a camera that wasn't looking at the fighter.

That's boxing. That's also being a woman.

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