Katie Taylor can turn into a world winner when she struggles Christina Linardatou for its WBO super-lightweight belt live on Sky Sports.
The Irish star was crowned as the most lightweight champion following a hard-fought win over Delfine Persoon at June and currently targets a world title in a higher weight class at Manchester Arena, together with Anthony Crolla’s farewell struggle and Joshua Buatsi’s WBA light-heavyweight title eliminator from Blake Caparello.
Taylor intends to cement her position as the world’s greatest female boxer in the future and fully is currently relishing her WBO title clash.
“I had some of my first pro struggles at the Manchester Arena and also to come back in November and headline a card there a couple of years on is astonishing,” explained Taylor.
“It is played host to a huge nights in boxing history so I’m honoured to be a part of the tradition.
“It’s a new challenge in a new weight and something I’m quite excited about. I feel like I have so much left to reach in the sport and getting a world winner is one of these aims.
“There are still so many enormous fights out there for me such as the Amanda Serrano struggle, a rematch with Delfine Persoon and a fight with Cecilia Br??khus but the first goal is November 2 and winning yet another world title.
“I really don’t have some problems making lightweight so that I believe I could move comfortably between the 2 weights. I always want to push myself and Christina is a wonderful world champion, so it’ll be a major test for me personally.”
But Linardatou, with 12 wins and one reduction, believes she could inflict a devastating first defeat on Taylor.
“I intend on leaving England with my name,” she said. “If I need to knock on Katie Taylor out in order to keep the title, that’s what I will do.”
Mancunian Crolla returns to the scene of his triumph, a stoppage win Darleys Perez to earn the WBA lightweight belt in November 2015, this year, after falling short against champion Vasiliy Lomachenko and the 32-year-old will have one final fight.
Buatsi recently ceased Ryan Ford in seven rounds but if be given a sterner struggle contrary to Australian Caparello, a former world title challenger, who has shared the ring with Andre Dirrell and Sergey Kovalev.
Felix Cash defends his Commonwealth middleweight title and Gamal Yafai will take another step towards a name in the featherweight division.
“I am so pleased to be back in Manchester for this huge show,” explained Matchroom Boxing manager Eddie Hearn.
“Katie Taylor has become established among the biggest stars on the planet boxing and she bids to make more history by turning into a multi-weight world champion by hard WBO super-lightweight winner Christina Linardatou.
“Hometown hero Anthony Crolla rolls the dice one more time as he takes part in his final fight in the sport in the arena that has functioned so many epic Anthony Crolla nights.
“The stabilisers are off for Joshua Buatsi because he takes a huge step up against tough Australian Blake Caparello in a WBA world title eliminator and there’s a brilliant national middleweight clash between Commonwealth champ Felix Cash and English champ Jack Cullen.
“There is a lot more under these four conflicts on what will be a massive night of boxing.”
Adam Smith, Head of Sky Sports Boxing, stated:”We are totally thrilled to be showing the greatest female boxer in the world back on Sky Sports with this huge show. This is just another significant evaluation for Katie Taylor because the unified winner continues to cement her extraordinary legacy in the game and takes on all comers.
“Katie is really a marvellous ambassador and inspiration for many and we are delighted to be working closely with her because we look to feature both the very best in boxing and also in women’s sport on Sky”
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