Professional boxer Amanda Serrano said she’s ready for another rematch against Katie Taylor after losing the undisputed women’s lightweight title by unanimous decision via three scores of 95-94 in the featured undercard bout ahead of last weekend’s main event between Mike Tyson and Jake Paul. Taylor had retained the title after their last nail-biting fight at New York City’s Madison Square Garden in 2022.

“I believe I won the fight, which means we have to go for the third fight,” Puerto Rico’s Serrano told “CBS Mornings Plus” co-hosts Adriana Diaz and Tony Dokoupil on Thursday, confirming she’s “100% interested” in a rematch. This time, she’s requesting that it be fought under the men’s rules, which is 3-minute rounds with a maximum of 12 rounds.

There was a lot of “excessive headbutting and excessive holding” throughout the 10-round rematch, Serrano said. Serrano continued the bout despite having a huge gash over her right eye. The cut was split open even more after a clash of heads in the sixth round, but a doctor cleared Serrano to resume the match. Taylor was docked a point by the referee for a headbutt in the eighth round.

“I want to apologize to everybody for that gruesome cut; it wasn’t my fault,” Serrano joked, adding that the doctor did a great job stitching it up afterward.

Taylor “likes to come in with her head,” Serrano said, adding that she doesn’t necessarily believe it was intentional. “That’s how she fights.”

According to Netflix, roughly 74 million average viewers worldwide watched the captivating fight between the pair, making it the most-watched women’s sporting event in history. 

“Now people who’ve never seen boxing before, never knew women fight, know women can fight,” Serrano said, adding that it was “truly an honor” to perform on such a huge platform.

Serrano praised Jake Paul for bringing viewership and revenue to the sport of boxing and said she’s honored to fight under the boxing promotion company Most Valuable Promotions, founded by Paul and Nakisa Bidarian in 2021.

“A lot of people didn’t know women fight until he brought me along,” Serrano said of Paul. “And he brings in the money. My biggest payday was my first fight on his undercard and it’s just gotten bigger since then.”

Former Ambassador to the United Nations and 2024 GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley criticized President-elect Donald Trump’s decision to give high-profile posts in his administration to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard, both candidates whose prospective nominations have received some pushback about their backgrounds.

On Kennedy’s selection to lead the Health and Human Services Department, Haley criticized his lack of expertise in health care and his previous party affiliation as a Democrat.

“Who is RFK Jr? He’s not a health guy, he has raised questions about what’s in our food, and I am right there with him,” Haley said. She added, however, “That’s not his background. He is not educated, trained or practiced in healthcare at all.” She also called him a “liberal Democrat,” multiple times.

Kennedy has a long record of criticizing vaccines, though he recently claimed he is not anti-vaccine. But public health experts have objected to his long record of misleading statements questioning vaccine safety and worry he could upend decades’ worth of hard-fought wins in improving vaccination rates against deadly diseases.

Haley, who challenged Trump in the GOP primaries and later endorsed him, also criticized Gabbard, a former congresswoman who represented Hawaii and Trump’s pick to be director of national intelligence, for her “disgusting” past statements on human rights violations in Syria, which Haley says echo Russian propaganda.

“This is a job for an honest broker without any pronounced policy biases,” Haley said. “She went to Syria in 2017 for a photo-op with [Syrian President Bashir] al-Assad while he was massacring his own people … this to me was disgusting.” Haley added, “Everything she said about that was Russian talking points, Russian propaganda.”

Gabbard defended her 2017 meeting with Assad at the time as a “fact-finding mission,” although later she described him a “brutal dictator.” In 2019, she also expressed opposition to U.S. involvement in Syria’s civil war and said Assad “is not the enemy of the United States because Syria does not pose a direct threat to the United States.” The Trump transition team did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Gabbard does not have experience in the field of intelligence and opposes the United States’ intervention in the war in Ukraine. 

The Senate is expected to provide advice and consent during the confirmation process once Trump formalizes their nominations. Former Rep. Matt Gaetz, who Trump planned to nominate to be attorney general, withdrew his name from consideration Thursday amid a House Ethics Committee investigation into sexual misconduct and illegal drug use allegations against him.