# katie-taylor - Thursday 21 January, 2021
# Best Of The Best
# Best Of The Best
Ciarán Kilkenny, Gearóid Hegarty, Sanita Puspure and Colin Keane are also in the running.
# katie-taylor - Sunday 27 December, 2020
# katie-taylor - Friday 25 December, 2020
# Looking Back
# Looking Back
Former Peamount star Ruth Comeford on the influences that shaped her career.
# katie-taylor - Thursday 17 December, 2020
# The Eagle Has Landed
# The Eagle Has Landed
The UFC star and the Bray boxer were among the nominees for an award decided by a public vote.
# katie-taylor - Monday 14 December, 2020
# Aaand Still
# Aaand Still
The Irish icon has retained the prestigious end-of-year award and also remains top of the BWAA’s pound-for-pound rankings.
# New Frontiers
# New Frontiers
Multi-billion-pound streaming giant DAZN is now live in Ireland, but they see an Irish sporting icon as a key part of their global expansion plans.
# katie-taylor - Thursday 3 December, 2020
# Recognition
# Recognition
LeBron James, Dustin Johnson and Khabib Nurmagomedov also make the list.
# katie-taylor - Wednesday 18 November, 2020
# Fight Like A Girl
# Fight Like A Girl
With Jane Couch watching on, it was fitting that Katie Taylor and co. put their fists through the glass ceiling at Wembley Arena, of all places.
# katie-taylor - Tuesday 17 November, 2020
# Popular
# Popular
Meanwhile, in more good news for the 34-year-old Bray native, she has just been named Ring Magazine’s pound-for-pound number one fighter.
# katie-taylor - Saturday 14 November, 2020
# Aaaand Still
# Aaaand Still
The Irish icon dropped Miriam Gutierrez and hurt in her several rounds but had to settle for an almost-perfect unanimous decision.
# katie-taylor - Wednesday 11 November, 2020
# Fight Week
# Fight Week
Katie Taylor ’s latest title defence and England v Ireland are up for discussion as Kathleen McNamee and Johnny Ward join us on this week’s edition of The Punt.
# Boxing
# Boxing
Katie Taylor on her free-to-air fight this Saturday, her cultural significance in professional boxing, and the debate over female fighters’ earnings.
# katie-taylor - Tuesday 10 November, 2020
# KT
# KT
Taylor v Gutierrez to be show on Sky Sports Mix as well as YouTube, Facebook and the Sky Sports website.
# katie-taylor - Thursday 24 September, 2020
# November Reign
# November Reign
Taylor will take on unbeaten Spaniard Miriam Gutierrez, promoter Eddie Hearn confirmed.
# katie-taylor - Monday 24 August, 2020
# Best Of The Best
# Best Of The Best
Three-weight world champion Claressa Shields tops Ring Magazine’s list.
# katie-taylor - Saturday 22 August, 2020
# Repeat
# Repeat
Delfine Persoon said she believed Taylor deserved her unanimous decision following another close encounter between the two rivals.
# Legacy At Stake
# Legacy At Stake
Scrutinous eyes not only from Ireland but from all corners of the globe will be on her performance tonight, the weight of the world on her shoulders.
# Bogeywoman
# Bogeywoman
Delfine Persoon sets out to break Irish hearts and become arguably the greatest ever female professional boxer tonight.
# katie-taylor - Friday 21 August, 2020
# Straightener
# Straightener
The Belgian weighed in almost 2.5lbs heavier than she did for their original scrap, but was comfortably under the 135-pound limit.
# katie-taylor - Wednesday 19 August, 2020
# Disputed Champion
# Disputed Champion
Ahead of her eagerly anticipated rematch with Delfine Persoon on Saturday, Katie Taylor says she is ‘looking forward to shutting up everyone that has criticised me’.
# katie-taylor - Thursday 23 July, 2020
# Destiny's Child
# Destiny's Child
The Tokyo Olympics were supposed to open tomorrow but instead of parading around Japan’s National Stadium, medal prospect Michaela Walsh will be running north Belfast’s roads.
# katie-taylor - Tuesday 7 July, 2020
# Straightener
# Straightener
A sequel to their June 2019 classic at Madison Square Garden, during which Taylor emerged as a controversial winner, is in the works.
# katie-taylor - Tuesday 30 June, 2020
# Bad Blood
# Bad Blood
A tweet from Taylor sparked an online war of words between Serrano, Eddie Hearn and Lou DiBella, and female boxing’s biggest fight now looks unlikely.
# katie-taylor - Friday 26 June, 2020
# Matchroom Square Garden
# Matchroom Square Garden
Ireland’s James Tennyson will also fight on one of Matchroom’s ‘Fight Camp’ shows, while there may be room yet for Jason Quigley to feature.
# Fight Camp
# Fight Camp
Amanda Serrano was expected to sign on for the clash on the Dillian Whyte v Alexander Povetkin card.
# katie-taylor - Sunday 17 May, 2020
# Dreams
# Dreams
Ireland’s Gráinne Walsh discusses her circuitous sporting journey.
# katie-taylor - Friday 15 May, 2020
# Future Plans
# Future Plans
The British Boxing Board of Control indicated bouts can return in two months’ time subject to a series of strict regulations.
# katie-taylor - Monday 11 May, 2020
# Planting The Seed
# Planting The Seed
‘Whatever she brings, I’ll be able to bring it harder,’ said the seven-time world champion from Puerto Rico.
# katie-taylor - Friday 8 May, 2020
# KT
# KT
Taylor was due to defend her status as undisputed lightweight champion against Amanda Serrano last weekend.
# katie-taylor - Sunday 19 April, 2020
# Legends
# Legends
The last two decades have been memorable in Irish sport in so many different ways. We have picked our stars of the century. Now tell us what you think.
# katie-taylor - Monday 6 April, 2020
# PREDICTION
# PREDICTION
Claressa Shields predicts Amanda Serrano v Katie Taylor will work out 60:40 in the Puerto Rican’s favour.
# katie-taylor - Tuesday 31 March, 2020
# In The Basement
# In The Basement
‘I said to my family: ‘You realise you’ve already been in isolation so much when you have to go into quarantine and nothing about your personal life changes.”
# katie-taylor - Monday 30 March, 2020
# By The Wayside
# By The Wayside
Promoter Eddie Hearn has confirmed that the 2 May card in Manchester, which included Dillian Whyte versus Alexander Povetkin as the co-main event, has been postponed.
# katie-taylor - Tuesday 24 March, 2020
# Waiting Longer
# Waiting Longer
Confirmation will be made this week, with promoter Eddie Hearn set to hit pause on all boxing events until the summer at least.
# katie-taylor - Saturday 7 March, 2020
# Needle
# Needle
Katie Taylor versus Amanda Serrano for the undisputed lightweight title: a fight with plenty of needle and a fight to move the needle.
# katie-taylor - Friday 6 March, 2020
# Career-defining
# Career-defining
The Wicklow woman faces toughest test of her professional career when she meets Amanda Serrano in Manchester on 2 May.
# katie-taylor - Friday 28 February, 2020
# Date Set
# Date Set
The fight will be on the undercard of the Regis Prograis and Maurice Hooker main event.
# katie-taylor - Wednesday 12 February, 2020
# Divil A Fear
# Divil A Fear
Katelynn Phelan, 19, took her inspiration not from Bray, but from Brooklyn, and wants to blaze a trail down a road less travelled.
# katie-taylor - Wednesday 5 February, 2020
# Shots Fired
# Shots Fired
‘There’s nothing really to her,’ said the Puerto Rican puncher, who is set to meet her Irish adversary this spring.
# katie-taylor - Tuesday 4 February, 2020
# 50 50
# 50 50
Taylor and longtime rival, seven-weight world champion Amanda Serrano, could clash in London for the Irishwoman’s undisputed title.
