KATIE HAS HER CHAIN YANKED BY JESS WITH DAY TO GO

AMERICAN lightweight Jessica Mccaskill reckons Katie Taylor is error prone ahead of her clash with the Olympic champion in London tomorrow night.

Taylor puts her recently acquired WBA World title on the line in 10-round defence against the Chicago orthodox in the main event of the evening on a 10-bout card at York Hall (live on Sky Sports).

Team Mccaskill had been persistently calling out Taylor via social media over the last 12 months, even going as far as putting a picture of the Bray woman on a milk carton under the heading ‘Missing Person’ (above).

The tactics have irked the normally unflappable Taylor, with the two-time Irish Olympian (left) stating “she hasn’t left me alone for the last year”. Mccaskill’s career stats of five wins from six outings look decent enough, until you

delve a little deeper. Two of her victories in 2015/16 were against debutants who have never fought since and her other three wins have been against opponents who have collectively lost 10 of their 25 bouts.

“A lot of the good things you see about

Katie Taylor are in highlights. If you watch the actual fight there is a lot of mistakes,” said the 33-year-old American whose only loss was to another debutant Katonya Fisher in 2016.

“There’s a lot of opportunities in this fight.”

Taylor’s promoter Eddie Hearn agreed that Mccaskill talked herself into the biggest night of her career.

“Sometimes in boxing you have to make noise to get the opportunity and certainly Team Mccaskill have made a lot of noise over the last couple of months.

“It’s the first time I’ve seen the bit between Katie Taylor’s teeth where she saw a lot of people talking and said she wanted a fight and ‘this is the fight that I want now’.”

Unbeaten Taylor is aiming to finish out 2017 with a statement victory and is thrilled to be the headline act in her eight paid outing

“This sets me up to end the year on a high. I just want to kick on when it comes to Wednesday evening. I’ve always made it known that I want to be involved in the biggest and best fights possible, she said.

“My dream is to unify the division. I’m not looking past Wednesday, I didn’t think it was going to happen this quickly that I would headline a card. This is the sort of platform I’ve always wanted.”