Women’s boxing and Katie Taylor badly need a contest

Eddie Hearn has Katie Taylor primed to spearhead a breakthrough for women’s professional boxing but she can’t do it all on her own, writes Brendan O’Brien.

What value a world title?

We ask because Katie Taylor is 1/33 to relieve Argentina’s Anahi Sanchez of the WBA world lightweight belt in Cardiff’s Principality Stadium tomorrow night. This just 12 months on from the news that she was shedding her amateur status and stepping onto the bottom rung of the professional ladder in the care of Eddie Hearn.