The undisputed world lightweight champion will face Amanda Serrano in the richest women’s bout of all time and ‘it is a dream to be in a fight like this’, she tells Donald McRae
The undisputed world lightweight champion faces Amanda Serrano on Saturday night in the most lucrative women’s bout everhe hushed and exclusive New York Athletic Club on Central Park South is a long way from St Fergal’s Boxing Club in Bray, County Wicklow, where Katie Taylor first pulled on the gloves in a remarkable career which will reach a crescendo on Saturday night at Madison Square Garden.
She has had a complicated relationship with her father, Peter, especially since her parents’ separation, but he led the struggle to force the Irish boxing authorities to lift their draconian ban on girls stepping into the ring. On Halloween night in 2001, a 15-year-old Taylor and Alanna Audley, a teenager from Belfast, met in the first officially-sanctioned bout between two female boxers in Ireland.
Taylor, with her deep Christian faith and innate humility, is not a hype merchant. So this last statement is eye-catching. It proves that, like all great boxers, Taylor has a self-belief and fighting ego which sustains her. Yet even that conviction was almost not enough– against Delfine Persoon on the undercard to Anthony Joshua’s shock defeat to Andy Ruiz Jr in June 2019. It was a savage battle and Taylor was perhaps fortunate to get the decision.
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