'My Dad has always been a hero to me': Katie Taylor praises former coach during CNN special

Unified lightweight champion Katie Taylor has described her dad and former coach Pete Taylor as her hero and told CNN she wants another shot at Belgium's Delfine Persoon.

'My Dad has always been a hero to me': Katie Taylor praises former coach during CNN special

Unified lightweight champion Katie Taylor has described her dad and former coach Pete Taylor as her hero and told CNN she wants another shot at Belgium's Delfine Persoon.

Arguably the greatest pound-for-pound female fighter of all time, Taylor recalled that there was uproar when it was discovered she was not a boy at amateur contests in the late 1990s.

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