KATIE TAYLOR makes her first defence of the WBA lightweight tonight (December 13) against Americaโs Jessica McCaskill.
โBelieve it or not, Katieโs really got the bit between her teeth,โ promoter Eddie Hearn said. โIf you look at their social media itโs all been โsheโs over-hyped,โ โshe doesnโt want to fight us,โ โweโll destroy her.โ
โI 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. Katieโs like the silent assassin, sheโs brutal. But sheโs 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.
โThe plan is to unify. So youโve got [Victoria] Bustos, whoโs the IBF champion, whoโs next on her list. I want to take Katie back to Ireland in 2018. Thatโs obviously the sensible thing to do and then I think thereโs other standout fights, whether itโs Holly Holm โ Iโm not trying to jump on the MMA crossover. Holly Holmโs actually a boxer. Some kind of world champion,โ Hearn said.
โYouโve got others coming through, Tasha Jonas, Chantelle Cameron. Itโs 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