Irish sporting icon Katie Taylor is about to step away from the ring for a time frame, with the World Boxing Council confirming she’s going to maintain the honorary place of Champion in Recess.
The Bray native, 39, knowledgeable the sanctioning physique that she intends to take day trip to cope with private issues. The transfer means she’s going to vacate her WBC tremendous light-weight belt whereas nonetheless retaining a singular standing that ensures her a direct route again to championship competition ought to she resolve to return.
Explaining the choice, WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman stated:“ Katie tell us she plans to take a while away from the ring to attend to private issues. The struggle she was contracted to take was towards Chantelle Cameron. By naming her Champion in Recess, we are going to now order Sandy Ryan to face Cameron to find out the official WBC tremendous light-weight champion.”
Taylor nonetheless holds a glittering assortment of world titles—WBA, WBO, IBF, IBO, and The Ring Journal belts—all retained following her trilogy victory over Amanda Serrano in New York final summer time. It stays to be seen what these sanctioning our bodies resolve to do with their belts and wheter or not they are going to make them vacant.
The WBC’s determination to make the Olympic medal winner a Champion in Recess, means Taylor’s managerial stablemate, Sandy Ryan, has been handed a world title shot, with the governing physique ordering a world title between her and former Taylor rival Chantelle Cameron.
Taylor’s long-term future stays unclear. Matchroom chief Eddie Hearn admitted earlier this 12 months that he wasn’t sure if she would struggle once more, although he has repeatedly expressed hope of fulfilling her dream of headlining at Croke Park.
