Ioana-Mera plots to dethrone Taylor

A former Munster and Cork champion will be standing in Katie Taylor’s way at the ninth European Women’s Boxing Championships in Romania today.

Taylor, Michaela Walsh and Joanna Lambe, who both won yesterday, will contest quarter-final bouts in Bucharest today.

Romania-born Lavina Ioana-Mera, who won Munster and county titles boxing out of the Mitchelstown BC in Cork, meets Taylor, the current Olympic champion, at approximately 2:30pm.