Katie Taylor, Las Vegas and marketability
With rumours of Katie Taylor getting on the Andre Ward vs Sergey Kovalev re-match, Emmet Ryan looks at the purpose of such a sojourn before her expected title fight in Dublin
It is anything but a sure thing but it's also no surprise that talk of Katie Taylor getting onto the card for the re-match between world light heavyweight champion Andre Ward and Sergey Kovalev.
The original bout was a money fight that saw Ward emerge with a unanimous but controversial narrow victory. The re-match is boosted mightily by the way the original clash went, with Kovalev proving far more active a fighter than ...