TALKING POINT
Five experts break down Taylor-cameron, examine what each must do to win and pick the winner
will run dry and that Taylor, having visited it so many times in recent years, will finally discover the feeling of one more challenge being too much for her.
It’s the job of Cameron, of course, to ensure that’s exactly what she experiences this weekend. Taller than Taylor by three inches, and with a threeinch advantage in reach, Cameron would appear, on the face of it, physically capable of exerting pressure on the home favourite and making her feel every one of her 36 years. She also carries with her the ignorance and arrogance of an unbeaten fighter, oblivious to how it feels to be defeated and therefore unlikely to be scared of it happening, even when in the presence of arguably the best female boxer in the world. Such fearlessness, combined with her stature, should help Cameron on the night – help her settle, help her manage her nerves, help her attack Taylor with the ferocity she knows Taylor herself will be only too happy to match. But whether in the end size, freshness and fearlessness will be enough to win the fight for Cameron remains to be seen.
Until we sense otherwise, Taylor still carries her knack for problem-solving. And if all she needs at this juncture in her career is a little extra push to get her to the final bell and see that her hand is raised, there can be no better provider of that push than a sold-out Irish crowd, all of whom have been waiting for her return for far too long now. It could be enough, in an extremely tight fight, for Taylor to again celebrate a 10-round decision, this time of the Irish kind; the kind some, including Cameron, will leave Dublin calling “lucky”. Finding a place on the Dublin undercard is a 12-round welterweight fight
RUMOURS swirl that this could be Taylor’s last fight. If she beats Cameron, and in doing so takes all the major belts in a second division, at home, against a younger rival, and is still undefeated, what more will she have left to achieve? Amanda Serrano might be best placed to answer that question...
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