For seven years elite boxing has been absent from Ireland after a gangland murder at a Dublin weigh-in. On Saturday it returns but uncertainty surrounds Taylor’s long-awaited first pro fight on home soil
, as one bullet missed an artery by millimetres, and that Kinahan was “a good bloke” in the sense that he supported boxers.
Kinahan established himself as a boxing power-broker, and continued despite being in hiding, and MTK represented hundreds of fighters across Britain, Ireland and the US. They instigated a ban on all Irish media who shone a light on MTK’s links with Kinahan. Kieran Cunningham, a Dublin journalist who has covered Taylor’s career for 15 years, has made an absorbing and fascinating four-part podcast called. “An annual survey identifies the most admired sportsperson in Ireland,” he says. “Katie wins year after year at a canter. In second place you would have, depending on the time, Roy Keane, Brian O’Driscoll or Rory McIlroy. Big stars in global sports.
In 2001, aged 15, Taylor fought in the first officially sanctioned female boxing bout in Ireland. Cunningham also points out that Taylor is one of the main reasons why women’s boxing became part of the Olympics. In November 2007, Taylor and Canada’s Katie Dunn fought an exhibition to gauge whether women’s boxing was worthy of an Olympic slot. “Taylor fought out of her skin,” Cunningham says. “She won over the doubters and women’s boxing was given a ticket to the five-ringed circus.
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