American boxing legend thinks Serrano is too stubborn to beat Taylor
Women's boxing legend Clarissa Shields thinks Amanda Serrano's stubbornness will cost her any chance of beating Katie Taylor.
Serrano and Taylor have already provided two of the best fights women's boxing has ever seen in recent years.
And on 11 July in Madison Square Garden in New York, they will meet in the ring for a third time, with the super lightweight world titles on the line again.
Both of their previous fights have gone to the judges' scorecards, and both have been contentious decisions that have gone in Taylor's favour.
Shields, who, along with Serrano and Naoko Fujioka, is the only female boxer to become a champion in five different divisions, expects the same outcome for the trilogy.
The American told Fight Hub TV: "I think that Katie will win again. And listen, I don't have a dog in the fight. I mean, Amanda has some underlying issues with me, and saying that I downplay her career. Whatever the f*** she's talking about.
"So I don't know what that's about. What I will say is, from my knowledge, Katie Taylor is the better fighter. And Amanda can beat her! Amanda can beat her. But she won't. You can't teach an old dog new tricks.
"And Amanda — I'm not calling her old, because I don't know how old she is. I just know she's older than me — she's stuck in her ways. And I think that not only is she stuck in her ways, but her coaches are stuck in their ways, too.
"You have to look at what the judges saw, and think, 'Okay, even though we feel like we won, we need to fix X, Y, and Z.' But I don't think that she's mentally capable of doing that."
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