Katie Taylor has given an update for the first time since her summer victory over Amanda Serrano
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Katie Taylor is keen to carry on her boxing career – provided a landmark Croke Park showdown can be arranged for next year.
The undisputed super-lightweight champion disclosed following her most recent victory, a majority decision triumph against Amanda Serrano in July, that she would contemplate her future plans.
Following one of the most outstanding displays of her professional journey, the Bray Bomber remains willing to continue competing, with a clash at GAA Headquarters sitting at the summit of her ambitions for 2026.
“The one fight I really, really want is at Croke Park,” Taylor told Matchroom Boxing’s Flash Knockdown Podcast. “That would top off my career so well. There’s been so much talk over the past few years but I’m still clinging onto the hope that one day I can fight there, it would be the icing on the cake for me.”
Discussing her life following her third triumph over Serrano, the 39-year-old, who will visit Belfast for Lewis Crocker vs Paddy Donovan this weekend, added: “I’ve just been relaxing at home with family. Life has been as normal as it can be since. It was a great night at MSG and great to reflect.”
Taylor has been instructed by the WBC to face Chantelle Cameron, the mandatory contender for the title, and has until September 18 to determine whether she wishes to accept the bout or relinquish the belt after receiving another extension from the WBC, reports the Irish Mirror.
The 2012 Olympic gold medallist hinted following her recent trilogy bout victory over Serrano that she has minimal appetite for facing the Northampton fighter for a third occasion. “I think Chantelle has to see if she can sell out a 1,000-seater arena first. I don’t think she can sell out any stadium at all,” Taylor stated.
“I think I made her more money than she really deserves, to be quite honest.”
Cameron has since responded to the remarks, describing them as ‘trashy’.
“Usually she’s quite respectful and she’s a massive role model for the younger generation. To put someone down and discredit another boxer, when you’re a huge role model, she didn’t really carry herself well in that press conference,” Cameron told Sky Sports.
“I was quite shocked at her comments. We’re trying to grow the sport, instead of talking and behaving like that. You’re just discrediting the sport and it’s not really a good image for the next generation coming through.”
She added: “Women’s boxing, it’s a hard enough sport without talking about money and purses and who’s getting paid what and ‘I’m going to give you this payday’. You don’t have to like each other, not at all.
“But to make women’s boxing grow and get more people following and watching it and also the younger generation to behave in a certain way without being trashy, then we should all be supporting each other. Again, you don’t have to like each other, but you don’t have to put others down.”
Cameron has also suggested that Jake Paul, through his Most Valuable Promotions, is the only person who can make Taylor’s Croke Park dream come true.
“She does deserve her Croke Park swansong,” Cameron declared. “I feel like Jake Paul is the only one who’s going to give her that opportunity, the only one who’s going to invest all that money for her to have that night.”
She continued: “I would much rather box Katie on neutral ground. But she is the champion. She is the star. I’m just going to have to do what I have to do. I’ve done it before, I can do it again.”
Last month, MVP CEO Nakisa Bidarian disclosed that they are open to funding a third bout between Taylor and Cameron, who they represent, at Croke Park.
“Chantelle is a tough fight for Katie,” Bidarian informed BBC Sport.
“It’s her only loss. So you have to really see if that makes sense, and we’d like to do that at Croke Park.
“We haven’t talked to Matchroom about it, but Jake and I have talked at length about it.”
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