Image: Matchroom Boxing/Mark Robinson/INPHO. You’re going to hear: ‘What the hell’s going on? It’s the same in boxing: if you keep winning, your profile grows. She was scarcely tailormade for her own career switch when she landed into the gym in Vernon, Connecticut. It’s like, ‘I’ve done everything you can do — there’s nothing you’re getting past me.’. Daft.ie, The quiet man in Katie Taylor's corner Comments, Create an email alert based on the current article, Create your own sports news feed by selecting what interests you most, Choose 3 or more sports that you want to see. Everyone is nervous going into a fight, where sometimes I think journalists can be oblivious to that. Superfights — including a first-ever women’s pay-per-view headliner on Sky Sports Box Office — and an unprecedented million-dollar purse will accelerate that process and could be ticked off before end of business in 2020. Katie Taylor’s net worth for 2020, estimated earnings, and income is currently under review. She didn’t really understand the difference between professional and amateur boxing. Some people maybe had us by a round, some had her by a round — no one’s denying that it was a tough fight. Then, with [Christina] Linardatou, we didn’t go to the body a ton because I didn’t want to give Linardatou a chance inside — like, why sit inside with her when that’s her only chance to engage? And it’s funny, years ago, I used to put up kind of inspiring stories on my blog about people from different walks of life, and I think someone had actually sent me something about ‘this female boxer from Ireland’. Only marginally so, but such margins tend to determine the winners and losers in elite-level sport. This post is often updated with new information on Katie Taylor’s estimated income, salary and earnings. An emotional Katie Taylor exits the Rio Games. Forget the critics. You kind of realised tomorrow is never promised. Those who achieve greatness refuse to accept failure. And for all the quality on show, the night will not be the same. He’s driven every week because he’s highly competitive. So that’s when I started looking into who she actually was and what she was all about. “Katie is the first to admit, like, ‘Wow, it’s night and day’.

Depending on her progress in the spring and, potentially, summer, they could still reconvene in late 2020 or early 2021 — perhaps even in a clash of two lightweight Olympic champions. A native and lifelong inhabitant of the state of Connecticut, he was a natural athlete in his youth.

The quiet man in Katie Taylor's corner Ross Enamait used to work for an investment management company. From that standpoint, I really could care less what she’s saying.
“And initially, when she got here, I think she was preparing for the European Championships in November. Serrano lands a left hand on Heather Hardy. It doesn’t matter what people say, what people write — if you keep winning, you keep getting belts, you’re forcing the media to cover you. There’s this assumption that you’re going to just show up and win, that you’re just going to tick off the box: ‘Okay, won tonight’. I get both sides of this. Follow i sport on Facebook for more fight news, interviews and features. Taylor-Persoon was chosen as Ring Magazine's Women's Fight of the Year for 2019. , 400px wide “Personally, I’d love the Serrano fight”, Enamait says, “but I also definitely, 110%, want to fight Persoon again. The media is forced to cover the Patriots because of their success — not because of what they say before or after a game. The42 | If the planes had struck the World Trade Center an hour later, Hopkins, Trinidad and dozens of people associated with their middleweight-title unification fight may have been among the casualties. Even Whyte vs Povetkin, whatever the naysayers claim, would have drawn a five-figure crowd to the O2 Arena and Matchroom do know how to put on a big show: it is what Eddie and Barry have always done best. TheJournal.ie |