At the same time that champion Anahi Esther Sanchez was exerting herself in an effort to lose the excess pound she just could not shift, Katie Taylor yesterday sat down at an Italian restaurant to enjoy a post-weigh-in meal ahead of her world-title tilt in Cardiff tonight.

Eddie Hearn has Katie Taylor primed to spearhead a breakthrough for women’s professional boxing but she can’t do it all on her own, writes Brendan O’Brien.

Katie Taylor has hailed her world-title date as the “biggest night” of her career ahead of Saturday’s showdown with WBA lightweight champion Anahi Esther Sanchez.

Katie Taylor has insisted she is not disappointed by the fact that her first world-title shot will not take place in Ireland, but the Bray woman hopes to book a long-awaited homecoming fight in the new year.

Katie Taylor hopes a world-title victory this weekend in Cardiff will tee up a home defence in Ireland next year.

Katie Taylor claims she will set her sights on unifying world titles in her lightweight division if she wins the WBA crown next month.

Even if Wembley Stadium is only half-full at the time she takes to the ring, Katie Taylor is still likely to be boxing in front of her biggest ever crowd at Wembley tomorrow.

Katie Taylor has called for women’s professional boxing rounds to be extended to three minutes, in line with men’s bouts, following her fourth pro win over the weekend.

Back in pro action for the fourth time in just over four months, Katie Taylor steps up to eight rounds for her “toughest fight to date in the pro ranks” at the Manchester Arena tonight. 

Katie Taylor is back in the gym today ahead of three big fight dates in the next three months and a possible world-title challenge in September.

Katie Taylor claims she is in supreme shape ahead of her third professional bout, insisting every fight of her pro career is now “like an Olympic final” despite her status as an overwhelming favourite tonight.

Katie Taylor’s return to the ring this weekend is set to kickstart a busy run of at least seven fights this year for the former Olympic champion.

By the time the final bell rings on her professional debut tonight, Katie Taylor hopes that talk of Rio will be firmly in her past.

To say a fighter is ‘hungry’ may be an old boxing cliché, but in Katie Taylor’s case it seems like – purely in a literal sense – she no longer has the appetite she used to.