Now the challenge is finding Katie Taylor good opponents

With Katie Taylor winning her first professional world title last weekend, Emmet Ryan looks at the odd challenge of finding her folk worth fighting

WBA world lightweight champion Katie Taylor with her belt. Pic: Getty

Katie Taylor and Anthony Joshua find themselves in odd spots. Each is tremendously popular, highly bankable, andsorely lacking in worthy opposition.

Joshua is the victim of being in a heavyweight division that is still in the rebuilding phase, but time is on his side. Taylor faces a slightly tougher task as the Bray boxer is going to have to get creative to come across worthy opposition.

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