Eric Donovan: No KO, but Katie Taylor will outsmart Amanda Serrano

Eric Donovan outlines how Katie Taylor can get the better of Amanda Serrano in their world title fight at Madison Square Garden.

It goes without saying this is going to be a huge challenge for Katie Taylor. Without a shadow of a doubt, Amanda Serrano will be the most formidable fighter she will have faced.

She is going to bring something Katie hasn’t faced before. The seven-weight world champion from Puerto Rico has been there, done that, and is a serious athlete.

The flip side to that is the 33-year-old hasn’t faced anyone at the level of Katie. None of Serrano’s previous opponents have the skillset that Katie has.

Our Olympic champion is going to bring hand speed, height, her feinting...I’d like to see Katie throwing more feints and dummies to keep Serrano on edge.

Hopefully the two-minute rounds will be enough for Katie to win them, and she can bank some early rounds

Katie will be seeking a career-best performance, and she is going to need that type of performance to pull off a victory.

In saying that, I think her opponent is going to have to produce something similar. It will be nail-biting stuff.

Hopefully the two-minute rounds will be enough for her to win them, and she can bank some early rounds.

I'm expecting a fight of two halves, with Katie enjoying the lion’s share of the first half and Serrano, being the cute, professional that she is, closing the gap as Katie gets tired.

Serrano has that ruthlessness in her. She doesn’t step off in a kind of tippy-tappy way. She goes for it and brings heavy artillery.

I think ultimately it will boil down to the last round or two.

Katie weighed in three pounds heavier that her opponent yesterday, but I don’t think she has the power to knock Serrano out. She hasn’t knocked anyone out in