How many boxers have left the sport coz of bad decisions?Last night my clubmate Barry Keegan was absolutely robbed at Leinster Intermediates
— Katie Taylor (@KatieTaylor) October 31, 2013
From the club with no jacks.
Can’t get a break.
(Katie Taylor and Mira Potkonen)
As part of her preparations for her 2014 AIBA World and European Elite title defences, the champion is to fight next month in Bray’s Ballywaltrim Community Centre.
On November 30, she will fight Finland’s Mira Potkonen – who she beat in the EU semi-finals – at the Boghall Road venue.
It will be the AIBA World Number One’s first fight in Bray since she won her Olympic gold back in 2012
We’re calling it ‘The Affray in Bray’.
Katie Taylor to fight Mira Potkonen in Ballywaltrim (Breifne O’Toole, Bray Herald)
Bray Boxing Club – the gym without toilets or showers where Katie Taylor trained for the Olympics - in Bray, Co Wicklow, being gutted ahead of a “complete refurbishment” today.
Adriaaaaaan
(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)
She’s turning pro.
In part because of YOU
On July 7, Katie Taylor, the world champion of female boxing, won her fifth European Union Amateur Boxing Championship title for Ireland in Keszthely, Hungary.
Over all, the Irish women’s team came away from the 23-nation tournament with 15 medals; a record for Irish boxing. Taylor, Kristina O’ Hara, Grainne Gavin, Jacqui Lynch and Amy Broadhurst all received gold medals in the 7th European Union Women’s Senior, Youth and Junior Championships.
However, none of their fights were televised.
“We still don’t get equal publicity with the men,” said Taylor in a phone interview, a few days after the Irish team returned home to Dublin from the tournament, and hours before Taylor jetted to New York for a holiday. “I’ve worked my whole life to get where I am and no television coverage for those fights is not fair.”
Taylor has now won 15 major gold medals since 2005 and is the reigning Olympic, World, European, EU and Irish lightweight champion. She is planning to fight professionally for the first time in her career.
n September or October, Taylor will enter the World Series of Boxing (WSB), a professional competition in which amateurs are encouraged to take part. Taylor describes the opportunity as a “transitional event,” where she will fight, for the first time, without head gear and compete for prize money.
World Series of Boxing.
Without head gear.
This is not good.
Thanks Gill
Katie Taylor’s RAV4 billboard at Dun Laoghaire Dart station.
Fair play though, in fairness.
(Thanks Conor Hamill)
‘Hands Trained For Battle’
A tribute from RTE Sport:
Ahead of her first fight since the London 2012 Olympics, watch Irish 2012 Olympic gold medal winner Katie Taylor on her training and the things that inspire her.
She’s talking about Jimmy Magee
Katie Taylor literally looking a ‘million dollars’In the corridor of the Shelbourne Hotel, Dublin, this afternoon.
Picture by Jason Clarke
YES.
YESSSSSSSS!!!!!!
Go Kat _
Ah.
Katie returns to scene of gold for top BBC award (Bernard O’Neill, Irish Independent)
Usain Bolt wins BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year (BBC News)
Thanks TF
Canvas.
Nevermind.
Katie Taylor with a painting of her gold-medal winning fight by John Paul Murray at the National Stadium, Dublin, this afternoon for the launch of An Post’s commemorative Olympics stamps.
From left: Michael Conlon, John Joe Nevin, Paddy Barnes and Katie Talyor.
(Mark Stedman/Photocall ireland)
