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Robert Hynes

Katie Taylor offered Croke Park fight on St Patrick's Day

Katie Taylor has been offered the opportunity to fight at Croke Park on St Patrick's Day by English boxer Chantelle Cameron.

The Northampton native was crowned the undisputed super lightweight champion last weekend after defeating American Jessica McCaskill via unanimous decision in Abu Dhabi.

Cameron has long called for a shot at Taylor and now says she is willing to travel to Dublin next March to make the fight happen if a deal cannot be reached between the Bray Bomber's team and Amanda Serrano.

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She tweeted: "March 17th Croke Park Katie Taylor Undisputed v Undisputed If the Serrano rematch don’t happen. I’ll be free."

Cameron has previously stated that she feels Taylor's team have avoided her over the years, but said prior to her win over McCaskill that if she became undisputed at 140lbs, she would become a marketable opponent for the 2012 Olympic champion.

She told The Irish Mirror: "I think Katie will fight anyone. I think it's her team that has avoided me.

"I've had nothing to offer kind of, but if I do win undisputed it makes me a marketable fight because Katie would have the chance to become a two-division world champion against me.

Chantelle Cameron (Getty Images)

"There have been girls that have fought Katie and I've thought how have they got the fight and I haven't? I feel like I've done a bit more than what some of them have done and I'm a better fighter than them, but they've got the opportunities.

"It's just down to professional boxing politics and this and that, but if I do win undisputed I don't see why the fight couldn't happen then because I'd have something there to offer and bring to the table and I don't think I could be denied it anymore."

Taylor has also expressed her interest in moving up in weight to try and become a two-weight undisputed champion, although a rematch with Serrano remains her top choice.

But it is understood that given the good old Irish weather that next May is the realistically the earliest time that Croke Park could host a massive outdoor boxing event.

Speaking prior to Cameron's win over McCaskill, Taylor said after her own victory against Karen Elizabeth Carabajal: "I have no problem in stepping up and facing either of those girls. I obviously fought Jessica and beat her before [in 2017] and I fought Chantelle as an amateur boxer as well. So I have no problem going up and facing either one of them. That would be a fantastic fight."

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