As sideways steps go, Katie Taylor is taking a pretty good one

Gavan Casey IF SOMEBODY HAD told you at any point in the last 20 years that one day, Katie Taylor would share a professional boxing card with Mike Tyson, you might have advised them to check themselves in for a brain scan.

His online persona is loud and annoying. He is utterly void of charm. Future studies will show his global popularity to be a key checkpoint in humankind’s inexorable march towards our own destruction. ‘People watched him box, too,’ our descendants will say. ‘They were always in huge trouble.’ So much so, in fact, that Tyson was deemed the ultimate, needle-moving foil for Jake Paul when Netflix were putting together their landmark live-sports debut. Tyson will be 58 by the time he takes to the ring at the Dallas Cowboys’ AT&T Stadium.

Instead, this was an instance in which Taylor pushed for a fight which conceivably could have jeopardised her relationship with the promoter under whose banner she has changed the complexion of her entire sport. But this pause in their arrangement also suits both parties for the simple reality that there are so few mountains left for them to scale.

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