No chill time for Katie Taylor as she gets set to headline own show

While promoter Eddie Hearn yesterday claimed he is keen to spread the Katie Taylor “gospel”, manager Brian Peters insisted he has no concerns over the new world champion’s surprisingly quick ring resurrection being scheduled for next month.

No chill time for Katie Taylor as she gets set to headline own show

Somewhere in between, the fighter herself maintained her usual, dignified candidness as she chatted with fans and media at an event yesterday billed as a ‘homecoming’, following her WBA world lightweight title win over Argentina’s Anahi Esther Sanchez in Cardiff last weekend.

Sitting in Dublin’s Irish Film Institute, it seemed fitting that the Bray woman was in a position to reflect on her first professional world-title success on the anniversary of her competing in the first officially-sanctioned female amateur bout to take place in Ireland, 16 years previously.

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