Katie Taylor: ‘When they realised I was a girl, there was uproar’

Undisputed lightweight world champion Katie Taylor has described her dad and former coach Pete Taylor as her hero and has revealed that she wants another shot at Belgium’s Delfine Persoon.

Arguably the greatest pound-for-pound female fighter of all time, Taylor recalled on a CNN documentary that there was uproar when it was discovered she was not a boy at amateur contests in the late 1990s. Female amateur boxing was unheard of in Ireland at the time and Taylor used to disguise her gender and name to see some action.