Katie Taylor eyes April homecoming fight in Ireland

Katie Taylor

KATIE TAYLOR makes her first defence of the WBA lightweight tonight (December 13) against Americaโ€™s Jessica McCaskill.

โ€œBelieve it or not, Katieโ€™s really got the bit between her teeth,โ€ promoter Eddie Hearn said. โ€œIf you look at their social media itโ€™s all been โ€˜sheโ€™s over-hyped,โ€™ โ€˜she doesnโ€™t want to fight us,โ€™ โ€˜weโ€™ll destroy her.โ€™

โ€œI thought this fight was going to be the fight for 2018, I thought this would be a perfect America fight. But Katie was like I want her next. So we made the fight. Katieโ€™s like the silent assassin, sheโ€™s brutal. But sheโ€™s got to be smart in this fight. She got hit too much in that last fight, I thought.โ€

Hearn is planning on taking Taylor to Ireland for a homecoming fight in April 2018 and for her to add more titles to her collection next year.

โ€œThe plan is to unify. So youโ€™ve got [Victoria] Bustos, whoโ€™s the IBF champion, whoโ€™s next on her list. I want to take Katie back to Ireland in 2018. Thatโ€™s obviously the sensible thing to do and then I think thereโ€™s other standout fights, whether itโ€™s Holly Holm โ€“ Iโ€™m not trying to jump on the MMA crossover. Holly Holmโ€™s actually a boxer. Some kind of world champion,โ€ Hearn said.

โ€œYouโ€™ve got others coming through, Tasha Jonas, Chantelle Cameron. Itโ€™s great. The more the merrier. But first things first, the aim is to pick up all the belts and unify the division and then move up.โ€

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