Katie Taylor showed up to the weigh-in Friday afternoon and it was then — more than 24 hours before she’d be in the boxing ring at Madison Square Garden against Amanda Serrano — that the gravity of everything they’d been trying to pull off hit her.

She has seen big weigh-ins before. But inside the Hulu Theater it was like, are you kidding me? The crowd was intense. Loud. Massive, especially for a weigh-in. Puerto Rican fans and Irish fans waving their flags, chanting and turning a mundane part of a boxing week into its own sideshow. Read More