Madison Square Garden hosted a historic boxing match headlined by 2 women

Madison Square Garden hosted a historic boxing match headlined by 2 women

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For the first time in Madison Square Garden's history, two women headlined a boxing event. Katie Taylor defeated Amanda Serrano in a fight that inspires hope for the future of women's boxing.

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST:

Some of boxing's most iconic moments have happened at New York's Madison Square Garden. The fight of the century, Muhammad Ali versus² Joe Frazier, was at the Garden. Rocky Marciano versus Joe Lewis was also there.

A MART?NEZ, HOST:

And this past weekend, for the first time in its history, the Garden hosted a boxing match headlined by two women, and it sold out.

MARTIN: Ireland's Katie Taylor and the USA's Amanda Serrano, known as the Pride of Puerto Rico, are the No. 1 and 2 pound-for-pound best fighters in the world, respectively. And the matchup did not disappoint.

(SOUNDBIGTE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)

JESSICA MCCASKILL: Katie taking some big shots here. Not...

TODD GRISHAM: But she's landing some, too.

MCCASKILL: She is. She is.

(CHEERING)

MCCASKILL: Both fighters are spent.

GRISHAM: A fight worthy³ of the occasion. They fought for history. And they're making history.

MCCASKILL: Katie goes down.

GRISHAM: Katie's knees buckle⁴. Oh, my word.

(SOUNDBITE OF BELL RINGING)

MART?NEZ: In the end, Taylor won a close split decision over Serrano.

MICHAEL ROTHSTEIN: When there's any event that has a lot of hype, very rarely does it live up to it. The fight not only lived up to it; it possibly exceeded it.

MARTIN: ESPN's Michael Rothstein there.

ROTHSTEIN: Women's boxing has always been not all that seen. It's been on, I wouldn't say, the outer fringes of the sport, but it definitely doesn't have the same level of attention, definitely level of pay as men who are fighting in the sport.

MART?NEZ: In time, Taylor versus Serrano at the Garden may be remembered as the night that all of that began to change. Perhaps Serrano summed it up best after the fight.

(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)

AMANDA SERRANO: Look at this crowd. Women can sell. Women can fight. And we put on a hell of a show.

(SOUNDBITE OF SELLS BEATS' "STORMZY LONDON")

1 transcript   

n.抄本，誊本，副本，肄业证书

参考例句：

• A transcript of the tapes was presented as evidence in court.一份录音带的文字本作为证据被呈交法庭。
• They wouldn't let me have a transcript of the interview.他们拒绝给我一份采访的文字整理稿。

2 versus   

prep.以…为对手，对；与…相比之下

参考例句：

• The big match tonight is England versus Spain.今晚的大赛是英格兰对西班牙。
• The most exciting game was Harvard versus Yale.最富紧张刺激的球赛是哈佛队对耶鲁队。

3 worthy   

adj.(of)值得的，配得上的；有价值的

参考例句：

• I did not esteem him to be worthy of trust.我认为他不值得信赖。
• There occurred nothing that was worthy to be mentioned.没有值得一提的事发生。

4 buckle   

n.扣子，带扣；v.把...扣住，由于压力而弯曲

参考例句：

• The two ends buckle at the back.带子两端在背后扣起来。
• She found it hard to buckle down.她很难专心做一件事情。