Close call but Katie merited verdict, says dad Pete

Pete Taylor believes his daughter deserved to have her hand raised in victory against Delfine Persoon in New York last Saturday night, but he admitted it was a close call.

Close call but Katie merited verdict, says dad Pete

Pete Taylor believes his daughter deserved to have her hand raised in victory against Delfine Persoon in New York last Saturday night, but he admitted it was a close call.

Katie Taylor edged the Belgian lightweight on a majority decision at Madison Square Garden to become the seventh fighter after Bernard Hopkins, Oleksandr Usyk, Jermain Taylor, Terrence Crawford, Claressa Shields, and Cecilia Braekhus to unify an entire division.

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