Katie Taylor def. Amanda Serrano, keeps super lightweight title - ESPN

NEW YORK — After 60 minutes and 30 rounds spent inside the ring together, the trilogy between Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano reached its conclusion with Taylor winning a majority decision in a far more calculated and tentative affair than their previous encounters to retain her undisputed super lightweight championship.

The fight capped off a historic all-women's fight card in front of an energetic sold-out crowd of 19,721 fans at Madison Square Garden, with a 2.63 million gate that streamed live on Netflix. However, unlike their other two thrilling showdowns that were narrowly won by Taylor, this was a much more subdued affair with the Irishwoman using a check hook and flurries to take a more definitive decision with two scores of 97-93 and one judge seeing it even at 95-95.

«I was obviously planning to come in here and fight a disciplined in this match,» said Taylor of her performance. «I was planning to do it the first two times as well, but it didn't work out like that. Thankfully I was able to execute my game plan very well, move my feet and not let her get set on her feet.»

Taylor and Serrano's previous two meetings were rousing encounters that Taylor won in disputed fashion but raised the profile of women's boxing overall. Their third meeting put a spotlight on women's boxing with 17 world titles contested across the fight card but didn't quite meet the extraordinarily high bar set by the first two fights.

Both Taylor and Serrano landed 70 punches each, a far cry from Taylor landing a combined 364 punches in the first two fights and Serrano landing 497.

«We tried something different,» said Serrano. «It was all about working smarter, not harder. I tried to keep my distance and tried not to go in there and fight