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Robert Hynes

Boxer Katie Taylor’s homecoming fight to be 'one of greatest sporting events ever seen'

Boxer Katie Taylor’s homecoming fight next year will be one of the greatest sporting events Ireland has ever seen, her promoter said yesterday.

Eddie Hearn and her manager Brian Peters vowed to get a deal done for a rematch between the undisputed lightweight champion and Amanda Serrano after their epic Madison Square Garden bout this year. Olympic champion Katie returned to action on Saturday to beat Argentina’s Karen Elizabeth Carabajal in London to retain her Ring/WBC/WBO/IBF/WBA belts for the seventh time.

After the bout, Hearn promised Taylor’s next fight will come at Croke Park in 2023 and believes the event will be a boxing event without parallel for his Matchroom promotion company. He said: “It would have to be the biggest thing we have ever done in boxing.

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