Katie Taylor is set to be stripped of one of her belts (Image: Getty)
Katie Taylor may be forced to relinquish one of her WBC world title belts in the coming weeks after beating Amanda Serrano.
Taylor currently holds the WBC titles in both the lightweight and super-lightweight divisions but hasn’t competed at 135lbs since defeating Argentina’s Karen Elizabeth Carabajal at Wembley Arena over two years ago.
Caroline Dubois, the WBC’s interim champion at lightweight, has been lobbying for a chance to fight for the outright championship. The WBC is expected to make a decision at their convention next month.
“It has been quite a long time since [Taylor] defended the lightweight [title]. Caroline Dubois is the Interim champion,” Mauricio Sulaiman, the WBC president, told Sky Sports.
“Caroline Dubois got an Interim championship so she can make money, she can be a champion and look in the near future for something.
“Hopefully there will be a resolution. We’re going to let Katie Taylor take a very well deserved rest for a week then we’re going to contact them and see exactly what the plans are.”
Eddie Hearn, Taylor’s promoter, says that the Irishwoman still has a wish list to complete before retiring, with a fight at Croke Park being the top priority.
“How much have we talked about it over the years and, like if there was ever a time…I’ve actually said this before, to be fair,” Hearn told Off The Ball.
“But we’re in November now, that gives you enough preparation for a summer event at Croke Park. We’ve just seen the biggest female fight of all time in front of the biggest audience of all time.
“It’s like, surely… and I’ll be honest with you, I don’t think it’s 100 per cent guaranteed that Katie Taylor will fight again. I’m sure she will, but it’s going to take something pretty special and unique.
“We had a long call with her last night with (her manager) Brian Peters and she was full of (enthusiasm).
Katie Taylor has now beaten Amanda Serrano twice (Image: Getty)
In the training room after (the fight), it kind of felt like if she was to turn around now and say, ‘that’s it for me’, I’d actually be extremely happy in a way that you could bow out on a night like that.
“But then she said, ‘there’s a few things, though, that I’d really like to do’. I said, ‘what’s that’, and she said, ‘Obviously I’d like to fight at Croke Park and I’d like to fight in Las Vegas.
“Then you start thinking, wow. I know there’s been a lot of interest from the Madison Square Garden guys because of the first Serrano fight to do something possibly in the Sphere in Las Vegas, which would be so iconic for her career – and Croke Park.
“But I just think if it’s Chantelle (Cameron) back at the 3Arena or it’s Amanda Serrano back at MSG, I’m not sure that’s necessarily going to really excite her in the same way that doing something different would.”