'What legacy is all about' — Taylor clear on her impact as she plots Serrano's downfall 

Bray champion maintains that a defining point midway through her first fight with Amanda Serrano wasn’t as worrying as it appeared.

WAR OF ATTRITION: Katie Taylor, left, and Amanda Serrano during their undisputed world lightweight championship fight at Madison Square Garden in New York, USA. Pic: Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile

The first dance was billed as the biggest fight in the history of women’s boxing. It featured everything; a sellout crowd, a lucrative purse, plenty of pain. A prize has its price.

For Katie Taylor, the cost the first time was a physical ordeal that had her visibly shaken midway through the bout. This time she has had to endure the circus that surrounds the main event, Jake Paul versus Mike Tyson.