Katie Taylor today joins the Irish training camp in Ukraine, part of her preparation for the 2012 World Championships in China next month but before leaving added two more comprehensive wins to her record, now standing at 124 wins from 131 contests. Here we take a look at this weekends bouts in Cork and Dungarvan.
A historic first ever women’s boxing international in Ireland last night was inevitably dominated by Katie Taylor whose 25-5 win over Dutch champion Jessica Belder was watched by a few hundred spectators in the Stadium and countless others at home and abroad via the IABA’s welcome ‘Live streaming’ coverage of all eight bouts. As another
Having won a fifth successive European 60kg title in Rotterdam in October and a fourth in a row European Union crown in Katowice earlier in the Summer, Katie Taylor received the coveted ‘ Boxer of the Year’ award at the Irish Amateur Boxing Association Annual Awards Dinner at the Green Isle Hotel in Dublin on
World lightweight champion Katie Taylor has been named as the Irish Times/Vhi Sportswoman of the month recipient for October. Taylor, from the St Fergal’s club in Bray, claimed her third European title on the trot last month just under a year after she won her 60Kg World title in New Delhi, India. The 21 year old