Former world champion reckons Katie Taylor won more in one fight than his whole career

Former super middleweight world champion George Groves reckons Katie Taylor earned more from her fight with Amanda Serrano than he did in his entire career.

Taylor reportedly earned €5.8 million from her rematch with Amanda Serrano earlier this month when she beat the Puerto Rican by unanimous decision at the AT&T Stadium in Arlington.

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The fight was on the undercard of the headline bout between Mike Tyson and Jake and streamed to millions of fans on Netflix.

And Groves, who was involved in plenty of big-money fights against the likes of Carl Froch, believes that Taylor's most recent purse eclipsed his entire career earnings.

He told Betway: "If she got anywhere near five million, that's more than I ever got in one fight.

"That amount is more than 99 percent of professional fighters will see in their lifetime. In the good old days it wasn't an investment, it was a profit share and you had to make that money back.

"If Ricky Hatton is fighting Kostya Tsyzu at the Manchester Arena and they're selling pay per views and they're a tenner each and you've got to pay Tsyzu's purse.

"Going back back 15 years the average ticket price is 50 quid. That's a million at the gate, then he's done 800,000 buys, but you've got to slip a percentage to Sky because you're on a split with Sky, you have to pay VAT, pay the opponent, pay the promoters, pay the outgoings, how do you get to 5 million?

"That's one of Ricky Hatton's most iconic fights. And me fighting at Wembley stadium, Haye v Bellew, those guys might not have been making that money."

Groves would like to see Taylor, who has now won 24 of his 25 bouts, fight three-minute rounds.

"I would like to see Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano fight over three minute rounds to be honest, not necessarily to have a conclusive winner, but to see a difference in what we see.

"It may be different. It's tough, because we're asking Katie, who has spent her career training and fighting two minute rounds to then fight three minutes, it's like asking Usain Bolt to race over 400 meters.

"He may be spectacular but he's not used to it. I would love to see it. I'm a fan of three minute rounds. I think you sacrifice a lot of skill and technique in order to land the volume of punches to win the rounds over two minutes.

"I don't like that so many rounds are tight and hard to score. And therefore you end up with decisions all over the place.

"I think that women should move to three minute rounds and the vast majority I speak to kind of agree."

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