Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2019-06-01, nice and close fight between Katie Taylor and Delfine Persoon: it gets three stars.The undefeated 2012 Olympic gold medalist, current Ibf, Wba and Wbo champion Katie Taylor entered this fight with a perfect record of 13-0-0 (6 knockouts) and she is ranked as the No.2 women’s lightweight in the world. In her last three bouts she has won over Cindy Serrano, Eva Wahlstrom (Katie Taylor vs Eva Wahlstrom) and Rose Volante (Katie Taylor vs Rose Volante).
Her opponent, the former Ibf and current Wbc Lw champ Delfine Persoon, has an official boxing record of 43-1-0 (18 knockouts) and she entered as the No.1 in the same weight class. She suffered her only loss when she faced Zelda Tekin in 2010, since then she has won 34 consecutive bouts defeating Natalia Vanesa del Valle Aguirre, Judy Waguthii and Melissa St Vil in her last three. Taylor vs Persoon is valid for the IBF, WBA, WBC and WBO World Female lightweight titles (they also faced each other a second time on August 22, 2020 – Katie Taylor vs Delfine Persoon 2); undercard of Anthony Joshua vs Andy Ruiz Jr. Watch the video and rate this fight!
Date: 2019-06-01
Where: Madison Square Garden, New York, USA
Division: lightweight (135 lbs, 61.2 kg)
Title: IBF, WBA, WBC and WBO World Female lightweight titles
Taylor’s previous fight: Katie Taylor vs Rose Volante
Taylor’s next fight: Katie Taylor vs Christina Linardatou
Taylor vs Persoon full fight video:
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Official video
Man, what a fight!
I had Katie ahead by one point on my card, but any result would have been acceptable.
In that last round Peerson was really close to get a KO.
Tough little broad that Delfine Persoon
And she won even while taking a few brutal elbows to the face!
Even though she is technically a much better, sharper fighter, there is no way Katie won that fight!
Katie Taylor is clearly the better fighter but Persoona non Grata is like a little piston engine constantly pushing forward, throwing punches from every possible angle. Obviously an awkward match up for the Irish champion. There is no way you could argue against any decision in this fight, Win, Lose, or Draw for either fighter
That was a great brawl.
I am a boxing fan all the way back to the Ali, Foreman, Frazier era, and this fight although fantastic, is exemplary of everything that’s wrong with boxing because they gave the wrong fighter the victory!!!! Too much money, power, greed, and corruption in boxing here in the states and not just in Las Vegas!!!!
Fully agree mate.
So proud of this amazing woman.Well done Katie.
Draw!!!!
I had it even going into the last round but Persoon won that and thus the fight.
By the look of Katie Taylor’s face she knows she lost that fight.
I thought it was terrible Taylor kept holding on to Persoon left. She was getting inside and ducking and leading with her head . I heard the commentators saying she needed to watch out for the head .
Taylor’s a dirty fighter I didn’t see anything great about her she was getting her a*s whooped except for when she was trying to cheatand they slipped her in to be a champion because I didn’t see anything special about her except for just being a dirty fighter and bouncing around like she knew what she was doing nothing respectable about her