Katie Taylor says she has to pinch herself now that her homecoming bout is actually happening.
IT’S BEEN A long time coming but on 20 May, Katie Taylor will finally make her first walk to a professional boxing ring in Ireland when she moves up in weight in a bid to relieve undisputed light-welterweight champion Chantelle Cameron of her mantle.
It was with her thumbs, however, that she did the talking earlier this month as she implored her promoter Eddie Hearn to ensure the 20 May date on which the 3Arena was available didn’t go to waste, politely inviting Cameron over for a scrap in the same Instagram post. Just over a week later, pens were put to paper and, once more, Taylor was coming home for the night she has spent the bones of her pro career dreaming about.
“It would have been easy… because we had a call before that about waiting for Serrano, and it was just the uncertainty of, ‘What if we waited for her and it fell through again?’ Her trainer, Ross Enamait, agrees on all counts, describing Cameron as “definitely the toughest fight out there.
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