Katie Taylor defends her world title for the first time this evening, facing Jessica McCaskill at York Hall. h
At the press conference ahead of the fight, promoter Brian Peters laughed off McCaskill's surreal attempts to unnerve Taylor ahead of the fight. McCaskill has targeted a fight with Taylor for quite a while, to the extent she went all Don Corleone toward the Irish fighter earlier this year.
McCaskill sent a plastic chicken to Taylor's training camp in June, presumably trying to goad her as a coward.
McCaskill then took another shot at the champion with this surreal callout video which sounds like it was filmed underwater. In it, McCaskill uses a carton of milk to claim that Taylor has gone "missing".
Speaking to Garry Doyle of The Times Ireland Edition, Taylor's promoter Brian Peters laughed off these antics.
Hilarious. That’s what we want. Rivalry is great for sport and the biggest problem Katie has had is the lack of dance partners. Finding the right opponent hasn’t been easy.
As the champion, Taylor can expect to have opponents jostling for a chance to step into the ring with her.
Perhaps not by using methods as bizarre as these, however.
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