Delfine Persoon has backtracked on her post-fight comments and now believes she shouldn't have lost on the judges' scorecards to Katie Taylor.
Compared to the first fight when the Belgian was furious that Taylor got the points verdict, Persoon was magnanimous in defeat last weekend.
“This time I respect the result. She has my respect this time she deserves to win. I have no problem [with the result]," said Persoon after losing the world title rematch.
But the 35-year-old police officer has changed her tune upon returning home and talking to the Belgian press.
Persoon said: “We shouldn’t have lost. And certainly not without a broken nose.
“We have already heard from several boxing experts that the victory could also be for me.
“After our analysis, we have doubts. A [draw] was possible, but if we give points ourselves, we end up with 96-94 for us. Although I also know that it is one opinion against another. ”
Persoon believes that she would have fared better if not for the broken nose she suffered early in the fight.
And the fighter claims that the damage was done by a Taylor headbutt and not from the Bray woman's gloves.
She said: “The fact is: if I still have a nose, I could have made it harder. That break was very frustrating, also because the ref came to tell me it came from a punch.
"But in the lightweights I haven’t seen a woman punch anyone that hard.
"That was after a headbutt. The ref wanted to cover himself with that, the power against the normal.”
