Nothing compares to Katie classic

IT was history in the making — an historic day for boxing and for the whole Olympic movement as the first three gold medals in women’s boxing were decided. And a dream realised for Ireland’s Katie Taylor, the driving force to have the discipline added to the Olympic programme.

The idea of women’s boxing included on what was an already crowded Olympic programme appeared far fetched until five years ago. That was when the president of the IOC, Jacques Rogge, sat side by side with the president of the OCI, Pat Hickey, at the world championships in Chicago to watch two women’s exhibition bouts.

Katie Taylor produced one of her spectacular performances to show them women’s boxing was on a par with anything they had watched that day during the finals of the men’s world championships.