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FOR an elite athlete who has achieved pretty much everything as both an amateur and professional, and accomplished every one of her goals, it can only be considered a glaring omission that Katie Taylor has yet to box as a pro in her native Ireland. This, ideally, would have been one of the first boxes ticked, either on her pro debut or later, when fighting for her first world title. Instead, for whatever reason she has had to wait some seven and a half years for the opportunity. Instead, it is only now, when the fight is pitched as both a homecoming and potentially her last, Taylor boxes in Dublin, before her adoring public.
Perhaps, in the end, it will be worth the wait. Certainly, in deciding to fight England’s Chantelle Cameron
on this special occasion, Taylor has resisted the temptation to have a homecoming fight in the traditional sense; that is, an easy touch permissible on account of a guaranteed turnout. By letting someone like Cameron step in for the original
