All Rio Ferdinand was doing was attempting to bring a little balance into the interminable debate over who is the greatest soccer player between Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo,

“People try and make comparisons of who’s better, etcetera, but just enjoy them, man.”

The former England and Manchester United defender succeeded only in becoming an enduring meme for fence-sitting. As Katie Taylor prepares to bid farewell to the prize ring against Flora Pili in front of her adoring public at sold-out Croke Park in Dublin on Saturday night, it feels like there’s a risk of doing the same thing when discussing the greatest women’s boxer of all time.

Ka…

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