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Katie Taylor’s manager Brian Peters expressed his interest in potentially setting up a matchup between the Bray-native and the UFC star, Holly Holm. To those who know of Holm only from her spectacular but also stuttering run in MMA, the fact that The Preacher’s Daughter holds an extensive and decorated history in the sport of boxing may come as a …

Katie Taylor and her opponent Delphine Persoon have both officially made weight and faced off for the last time ahead of their Madison Square Garden showdown tonight. Taylor has the opportunity to make her claim at being the world’s best female boxer undeniable by fighting to become the undisputed queen of the lightweight division. Facing Belgium’s Persoon (43-1), who has …

Katie Taylor will look to achieve the status of an undisputed champion tonight when she takes on Belgium’s Delphine Persoon in Madison Square Garden. Katie Taylor’s rise into the overall pound-for-pound discussion within the boxing world was something that could have been seen from a mile off. As one of the finest amateur boxers the country has ever known, Taylor’s …

Katie Taylor faced off against the one woman standing her way of history, Delphine Persoon, during a recent media event ahead of their clash on Saturday. The anticipation levels for this weekend’s lightweight title-unification bout are really starting to get somewhere, as one of the finest and most accomplished Irish athletes of the modern era looks to leave an undeniable …