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Amanda Serrano He received a severe cut above his eye in battle. katie taylorBut the boxing star said she wasn’t worried about the big cut…just worried she’d be sidelined. jake paul versus mike tyson!
“Thankfully, the doctor was a plastic surgeon, so I said to him, ‘Please, I have two requests. Could you please hurry up and do this without making it look too bad? ?Because I have to go see Jake,’” Serrano, 36, said. Babcock above TMZ Sports.
”[The doctor] You did a great job and I’m satisfied. Thankfully, they’re in the shape of eyebrows, so with a little makeup they’re almost invisible. ”
Of course, Serrano vs. Taylor averaged a whopping 74 million viewers during the fight, making it the most-watched women’s sports event in U.S. history.
Serrano said she didn’t realize the severity of the cut at first until she got out of the ring and went backstage.
“This is the corner where my brother and sister-in-law live, but they kept it quiet 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 thought, ‘Oh my God.’ I was sadder because the people watching, especially my family back home, had to see it, so it was me.” It brought tears to my eyes, it was really bad.”
Amanda called the match, and the entire Paul vs. Tyson card, “absolutely amazing.”
“I’m really happy to be a part of such a great event,” Serrano said.
“It was really amazing, and the whole thing we did in that ring was show millions of people that women can fight, whether it’s blood or anything, serious injuries or anything. We went out there. I didn’t lose. I wasn’t quitting, I was going to give the fans what they came to see, and it was a great match!”
You’d be hard-pressed to find a single rational person who disagrees.
Read the full interview with Amanda.
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