Katie Taylor (23-1, 6 KOs) avenged the only loss of her career with a ten round majority decision over undisputed super lightweight champion Chantelle Cameron (18-1, 8 KOs) on Saturday night at the 3Arena in Dublin, Ireland.
Cameron started strongly, seemingly dropping Taylor with a jab which was ruled a slip from the referee. Thereafter, both women traded blows at close range, leading to a number of head clashes, Cameron coming off worse with blood flowing from the third round on.
Taylor as a champion often does, sensed moments to put together shots with speed of hand and foot to pull away on the judges scorecards, the three rendering scores of 95-95, 98-92, 96-94.
‘Oh my gosh. two weight undisputed chamption, that sounds very nice! That was the longest six months of my life waiitng. This is my real homecoming.
‘Whoever wrote me off doesn’t know very well. Don’t ever doubt me.
‘The last fight you saw the worst of me and the best of Chantelle and it was still a close fight. Tonight you saw the real me and nobody can beat me.
Let’s get the trilogy at Croke Park!’
Lightweight Gary Cully (17-1, 10 KOs) took a ten round split decision over Reece Mould (18-2, 6 KOs) to capture the WBA Continental Europe title. Cully took two of the scorecards by 96-93 and 97-93. Mould was up 97-93 on the third card.
Welterweight Paddy Donovan (12-0, 9 KOs) remained unbeaten in knocking out Danny Ball (13-2-1, 6 KOs) in the fourth round to win the WBA Continental title.
Heavyweight Thomas Carty (7-0, 6 KOs) stopped Dan Garber (5-2, 1 KO) in the eighth round.
Former super featherweight world title challenger Zelfa Barrett (30-2, 16 KOs) decisioned Costin Ion (10-5-2, 5 KOs) over eight rounds. Score was 78-75.
WBC interim female featherweight champion Skye Nicolson (9-0, 1 KO) stopped Lucy Wildheart (10-3, 4 KOs) with the latter’s corner throwing in the towel.





