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New opponent named for Taylor fight

Katie Taylor - new opponent for Friday night clash in Bray
Katie Taylor - new opponent for Friday night clash in Bray

Spanish lightweight Maria del Carman Moreno has been named as Katie Taylor's new opponent for her Friday night contest in Bray.

Moreno's compatriot Jennifer Miranda pulled out of the bout.

The women will meet over four, two minute rounds at the Royal Hotel in Taylor's hometown of Bray on Friday night.

Taylor, the current World and European lightweight champ, beat Moreno on the Willie Casey versus Guillermo Rigondeaux undercard at the Citywest Hotel in Dublin last month.

The Wicklow native is then due to face German champ Maike Klueners at Walter Raleigh Hotel in Youghal, Cork on a St John's Boxing Club hosted show on 6 May.

Klueners reached the quarter-finals of the 2010 AIBA World Women's Championships in Barbados -where Taylor won her third gold on the trot - at featherweight and is ranked number 8 in the world.

European Union and Irish Elite champion Con Sheehan and Irish Elite welterweight champion Adam Nolan, a club-mate of Taylor's at Bray Boxing Club, will also be trading leather on Leeside.

The Bray and Cork shows are part of Taylor's build up toward her European Union title defence in Katowice, Poland in May/June.

That comes before the big one this year: the European Championships in Holland next October.

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