Amanda Serrano sets up Katie Taylor rematch in Dublin with win over Erika Cruz

It was the 2nd clip successful little than a twelvemonth that Serrano headlined a paper astatine Madison Square Garden

Amanda Serrano's rematch with Katie Taylor was confirmed aft she became undisputed featherweight satellite champion with a unanimous points triumph implicit Erika Cruz successful New York connected Saturday.

Ireland's Taylor, who bushed Serrano connected points past April, joined the Puerto Rican successful the ringing to accidental the rematch would instrumentality spot connected 20 May successful Dublin.

"This is much than a imagination travel true," said lightweight champion Taylor.

"My debut successful Ireland against Amanda Serrano, 'The Real Deal' Amanda Serrano. This is incredible. The past combat was epic, and I expect thing little for the adjacent one."

Taylor is undisputed champion successful the lightweight division, portion 34-year-old seven-weight champion Serrano became the archetypal Puerto Rican combatant to unify each the belts successful a division.

Also connected the Madison Square Garden card, American Alycia Baumgardner became undisputed champion successful the super-featherweight division.

The 28-year-old continued her meteoric emergence with triumph implicit France's Elhem Mekhaled.

Baumgardner doubly knocked down the challenger earlier being awarded the triumph 99-89, 99-89, 98-90 connected points.

It is the archetypal clip 2 caller undisputed champions person been crowned successful a azygous nighttime successful the four-belt era.

Serrano excessively beardown for Cruz

Serrano went into the contention arsenic a beardown favourite successful her 47th nonrecreational fight, and 17th with a satellite rubric connected the line.

But Cruz's assertive benignant made things hard for her aboriginal connected earlier she settled into what proved to beryllium an aggravated brushwood with the brace perpetually throwing punches astatine each other.

Cruz suffered a chopped to her caput successful the 3rd circular aft an accidental clash and contempt the fearfulness that the combat could beryllium stopped, she continued to combat hard.

Serrano came adjacent to knocking down her hostile successful the sixth round, but Cruz held connected earlier suffering her archetypal nonaccomplishment successful astir 7 years.

"Erika was a Mexican champion, she worked hard, that's what we trained for," said Serrano. "I didn't expect thing little than what she gave maine this night.

"They sent maine backmost to basics and I was listening to my country who asked maine to spell 1-2, which worked."

Much of the speech earlier the combat had been astir the rematch betwixt Serrano and Taylor with the Irishwoman ringside connected Saturday night.

The 2012 Olympic champion bushed Serrano by a divided points determination erstwhile they met successful the archetypal women's bout to header a boxing paper astatine Madison Square Garden past April.

Their rematch is scheduled to instrumentality spot astatine Dublin's 3Arena aft negotiations betwixt the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) and promoters Matchroom to signifier it astatine Croke Park fell through implicit "security costs".

But connected Friday, Irish mixed martial arts combatant Conor McGregor offered to provide £500,000 to wage for the information bill.