{"id":71486,"date":"2025-09-18T13:03:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T13:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/71486\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T13:03:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T13:03:06","slug":"katie-taylor-takes-time-away-from-boxing-to-attend-to-personal-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/71486\/","title":{"rendered":"Katie Taylor takes time away from boxing &#8216;to attend to personal matters&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Katie Taylor has informed the WBC she plans to take some time away from boxing and has been named &#8216;Champion in Recess&#8217; by the sanctioning body.<\/p>\n<p>The Bray woman won her trilogy fight with Amanda Serrano in New York on July 11 before the WBC announced the undisputed light-welterweight champion would face mandatory challenger Chantelle Cameron in a title defence, completing another trilogy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Cameron will now face Sandy Ryan in an all-English fight for the vacant belt instead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;She let us know that she plans to take some time away from the ring to attend to personal matters,&#8221; said WBC president Mauricio Sulaim\u00e1n.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;The fight she was obligated to take was against Chantelle Cameron; by naming her Champion in Recess, we will order Sandy Ryan to fight Cameron to ratify the WBC super lightweight world title.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Taylor&#8217;s future has been unclear, since the New York win over Serrano in July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Speaking after the Madison Square Garden fight, she admitted she wasn&#8217;t sure if she would get back in the ring. Responding to questions last week in Belfast, Taylor&#8217;s promotor Eddie Hearn said he didn&#8217;t believe she&#8217;d make a decision on her future until the new year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Katie Taylor has informed the WBC she plans to take some time away from boxing and has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[16181,18,19,17,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-71486","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-irish-examiner-instagram-sport","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}