Jonas issues Taylor warning with win over Underwood

If Katie Taylor needed reminding about the enormity of the task as she bids for the medal that has been anticipated since women’s boxing became part of the Olympic programme then it came loud and clear from Britain’s Natasha Jonas yesterday.

The Liverpool boxer claimed her place in today’s quarter-finals with an emphatic, though curious 21-13 win over American champion, Queen Underwood, the American getting a standing count in the last round that might have gone the other way.

From that it would appear Katie Taylor, for all her talents, can’t expect any favours and Jonas said the 6-3 defeat she suffered at Taylor’s hands in Bulgaria two years ago will count for nothing.