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Taylor quashes retirement talk ahead of 'must-win' fight

Katie Taylor says she is out to right the wrongs of her defeat Chantelle Cameron ahead of her rematch against the undisputed super-lightweight champion and insists notions of retirement have not entered her thought process.

Taylor and Cameron will lock horns again on 25 November at the 3Arena, a little more than six months after the English fighter inflicted a first professional defeat for the Bray woman at the same venue.

Amid a partisan atmosphere and a long-awaited homecoming for Taylor to Ireland, Cameron produced a composed and clinical performance to win on a majority decision.

Reflecting on that defeat, the 37-year-old Taylor admitted the better fighter won, but stressed she's very happy with how her preparation is going this time around.

"Mentally and physically I feel better going into this one," she told RTÉ Sport. "I didn't feel myself going into the fight.

"Everyone could see I wasn’t at my best. I feel like this camp has been very different."

While the 2012 Olympic gold medallist wouldn’t expand on the specifics of where it went wrong back in May, she played down the narrative that this fight has become more personal.

Cameron spoiled the party with the unanimous decision and was pictured at Dublin Airport on her way home, smiling with her arms spread out beside a large promo poster of Taylor.

Earlier this week the Northampton woman ratcheted up the tension by vowing " to go through her" in the rematch.

Is there added incentive for victory?

"I wouldn’t say so. I didn’t know about the picture at Dublin Airport. Every single fight is a huge fight for me, the next fight is always the most important one. My mindset with that sort of stuff is the same.

"Failure causes you to examine things a little bit more. That has been

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