Katie Taylor: ‘I definitely come from a strong line of great women’

Interview: Ireland’s favourite sportsperson on her faith, the family’s hard journey and why the potential mega-fight with Amanda Serrano will be worthy of making women’s boxing history

Katie Taylor Media Event, The County Club, Co. Meath Mandatory Credit ©INPHO/Tommy Dickson

“I love the fact that God chooses the lowly ones,” Katie Taylor says quietly in a conversation that is very different to the punishing dialogue she produces in the ring. She might be the most loved sporting personality in Ireland and ranked the best pound-for-pound woman boxer in the world, but Taylor retains her humility.

She is in the midst of describing her maternal grandmother and how she and her family overcame impoverishment in Bray, not far from Dublin.