Katie Taylor says she wasn’t ‘consumed’ by her defeat to Chantelle Cameron, but she’s ready to gain revenge in two weeks’ time.
“I don’t think a loss is that big of a deal.”
“I have to learn from the defeat, I have to adapt, and I was excited at the prospect of having a rematch coming up. So, I wouldn’t say that I had to sit down and sit down and evaluate the loss too much. It also helped that, in contrast to Taylor’s last defeat in the boxing ring — her Rio 2016 exit at the hands of Finland’s Mira Potkonen — there was no disputing that the right woman had her hand raised.
“I feel a lot better going into this fight,” Taylor says. “I feel in top form right now. I’m just looking forward to showing my best on the actual night. It was just a flat performance and I don’t need to talk about things too much in detail but I certainly wasn’t myself on the night and I think everyone who saw the fight could see that. “But all credit to Chantelle,” Taylor adds. “She did her job and there’s nothing I can do about that.
Taylor adds: “I think the emotion was from the fact that , ‘I can’t believe this is happening.’ Because there was a time when I didn’t think I was going to be able to fight in Ireland, in my own country. So, it was just that emotion of, ‘This is actually happening, now. This is really happening.’ I think I just had a heart of gratitude, really.