Colin Sheridan: Whatever the outcome of this fight, Katie had already won
Katie Taylor and her mother Bridget after her undisputed world lightweight championship fight with Amanda Serrano at Madison Square Garden in New York
One can only wonder what a nine-year-old Katie Taylor would have made of it all. An Irish boxer, retaining her world title in Madison Square Garden - boxing's most hallowed turf - in a fight that somehow outshone the hyperbolic frenzy that preceded it. If she can’t see it, so the catchphrase goes, she can’t be it. Another stigma Taylor destroyed with an uppercut. When she was a kid there were no women boxers headlining anything. Whatever she saw for herself, it could never have been this bloody glorious.
In contemplating this fight, you could have been forgiven for thinking Taylor had already won, regardless of the outcome.Â
