Exemplary win

Katie’s fifth title

By any criteria Katie Taylor’s victory in South Korea, which made her lightweight boxing world champion for the fifth time, is exceptional. That that half decade saw the relentless Bray boxer take European titles and culminated with an Olympic gold medal in London puts Taylor in a category all of her own in Irish sports history.

That only one other woman — India’s Mary Kom — has won five world titles puts Taylor’s achievement in an even a more elevated and special category. The very real prospect that she might add a sixth title — if that is not being too greedy — would put her in a unique position.