Katie Taylor

This article is about the boxer. For the figure skater, see Katy Taylor.

Katie Taylor
Katie Taylor in 2012
Born (1986-07-02) 2 July 1986 (age 38)
Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland
Other names
  • KT
  • The Bray Bomber
Statistics
Weight(s)
Height5 ft 5 in (165 cm)[1]
Reach66 in (168 cm)[1]
StanceOrthodox
Boxing record
Total fights24
Wins23
Wins by KO6
Losses1
Medal record
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Olympic Games 1 0 0
World Championships 5 0 1
European Championships 6 0 0
EU Championships 5 0 0
European Games 1 0 0
Total 18 0 1
Women's amateur boxing
Representing  Ireland
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2012 London Lightweight
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2006 New Delhi Lightweight
Gold medal – first place 2008 Ningbo Lightweight
Gold medal – first place 2010 Barbados Lightweight
Gold medal – first place 2012 Qinhuangdao Lightweight
Gold medal – first place 2014 Jeju Lightweight
Bronze medal – third place 2016 Astana Lightweight
European Games
Gold medal – first place 2015 Baku Lightweight
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2005 Tønsberg Lightweight
Gold medal – first place 2006 Warsaw Lightweight
Gold medal – first place 2007 Vejle Lightweight
Gold medal – first place 2009 Mykolaiv Lightweight
Gold medal – first place 2011 Rotterdam Lightweight
Gold medal – first place 2014 Bucharest Lightweight
EU Championships
Gold medal – first place 2008 Liverpool Lightweight
Gold medal – first place 2009 Pazardzhik Lightweight
Gold medal – first place 2010 Keszthely Lightweight
Gold medal – first place 2011 Katowice Lightweight
Gold medal – first place 2013 Keszthely Lightweight

Katie Taylor (born 2 July 1986) is an Irish professional boxer and former footballer. She is the undisputed and lineal world lightweight champion since 2019, and the undisputed and lineal world super lightweight champion since 2023.[2]

After winning the WBA lightweight title in 2017 and the IBF title the following year, her unification victory over Delfine Persoon in Madison Square Garden made her the eighth boxer in history (female or male) to hold all four major world titles in boxing—IBF, WBA, WBC, and WBO—simultaneously. In November 2023 she repeated the feat, beating Chantelle Cameron in Dublin for the IBF, IBO, WBA, WBC, and WBO titles, regaining the latter she initially won from Christina Linardatou in 2019.

In her amateur boxing career, Taylor won five consecutive gold medals at the Women's World Championships, gold six times at the European Championships, and gold five times at the European Union Championships. Hugely popular in Ireland, she is credited with raising the profile of women's boxing at home and abroad. Regarded as the outstanding Irish athlete of her generation,[3] she was the flag bearer for Ireland at the 2012 London Olympics opening ceremony before going on to win an Olympic gold medal in the lightweight division.[4]

Taylor turned professional in 2016 under Matchroom Boxing. As of March 2023, Taylor is ranked as the world's best active female lightweight by BoxRec[5] and the best active female boxer, pound-for-pound, by The Ring[6] and BoxRec.[7] She is known for her fast-paced, aggressive boxing style.[8]

  1. ^ a b DAZN Boxing tale of the tape prior to the Amanda Serrano fight.
  2. ^ "Women Lineal World Champions". Lineal Boxing Champion. Retrieved 26 November 2023.
  3. ^ "Katie carries flag and all our hopes". Irish Independent. 25 July 2012. Retrieved 25 July 2012.
  4. ^ "Ireland's Katie Taylor claims women's boxing gold". The Times of India. 9 August 2012. Retrieved 9 August 2012.
  5. ^ "BoxRec: Female lightweight ratings". BoxRec. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
  6. ^ "The Ring Women's Ratings". The Ring. 8 September 2020. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
  7. ^ "BoxRec: Female P4P ratings". BoxRec. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
  8. ^ "Tide is rising but we are only at the beginning of a whole new ball game". Sunday Independent. 8 March 2020. Retrieved 18 March 2020. And of course you're not missing anything when watching Katie Taylor either: you forget about the power deficit when she is in the ring because, as has often been said about the champ, she hits like a man.