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Amanda Serrano suffered a GNARLY gash above her eye preventing Katie Taylor, however the boxing star tells us she wasn’t involved in regards to the huge minimize … she was solely apprehensive she’d miss Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson!
“Thank God that the doctor was a plastic surgeon and I told him, ‘Please, I have two requests. Please don’t make it look really bad, and can you do it in a little rush? Because I have to go watch Jake,'” 36-year-old Serrano instructed Babcock on TMZ Sports activities.
“[The doctor] did a great job and I’m happy with it. Thank God it’s in the shape of the eyebrow so you can barely see it with a little bit of makeup.”
In fact, Serrano-Taylor — with an astounding common of 74 million viewers throughout the bout — was the most-watched girls’s sporting occasion in United States historical past!
Serrano says she did not know the severity of the minimize at first … till she left the ring and acquired backstage.
“My corner, which is my brother-in-law and my sister, they kept it calm and cool. They didn’t tell me how big it was,” Amanda revealed.
“When I went to the back and looked in the mirror. I was like. ‘Oh my God.’ It brought a tear to my eye because I was more sad for the people watching, especially my family back home, they had to see that, it was really gruesome.”
As for the battle — and your entire Paul vs. Tyson card — Amanda described it as “truly amazing.”
“I’m just happy that I was a part of such a great event,” Serrano stated.
“It was truly amazing and just overall what we did in that ring where we showed so many millions of people that women can fight, bloody and all, big cuts and all, we went out there, there was no losing in me. I wasn’t quitting, I was gonna get the fans what they came to see and it was a great fight!”
You would be hard-pressed to discover a single rational one that’d disagree.
Take a look at the complete interview with Amanda.
We chop it up over the controversial determination (does AS consider she gained?), whether or not she desires a rematch with Taylor, what influence the worldwide occasion may have on lady’s and ladies’s sports activities, and what the struggle did for her reputation (trace: numerous new followers!)
