Irish boxer Katie Taylor, Ireland's world champion women boxing , is an amazing athlete and unstoppable as the world’s top female boxer in the last three consecutive years. Female boxer Katie Taylor is actively pursuing her dream of making women's boxing an official Olympic sport for the first time in the history of the Olympic Games.
Her energy and personality make her a charismatic inspiration for girls, women and people everywhere in Ireland and abroad and as World Champion Boxing 2008 and 2007, Triple European Champion Boxing and Captain of the Irish Female Football Team, she represents her country Ireland at the highest levels in both boxing and football.
Lightweight double World Champion boxing, Katie Taylor from Bray, Co. Wicklow, Ireland, started boxing in 1998. She comes from a family with a boxing background - her coach at the St. Fergal's Boxing Club in Bray is her father Peter who was 1986 Irish senior light heavyweight champion boxer and her mother is a boxing referee.
Katie Taylor first made Irish boxing history - at age 15 - on October 31 2001 in the first officially sanctioned women's bout ever held in Ireland. She fought 16-year-old Alanna Audley (now Alanna Murphy) of Belfast at the National Stadium in Dublin in the first of three female contests on a sixteen-bout amateur card. Katie Taylor won over three 90-second rounds by 23-12.
Katie Taylor made Irish boxing history again at age 18 in May 2005 when she became the first Irish woman to win a Gold Medal at the Senior European Boxing Championships.
Many women and girls come in to boxing for different reasons such as self defence, confidence building, to do something different and learn new skills, or to compete in tournaments or just simply to be happy and healthy through a physical and dynamic activity.
Getting Started with Boxing
Getting started in boxing may seem a daunting task and you may be asking questions like "is it just for boys or men?" or "I won't be any good, will I?" or "where can I go?". Boxing for women and girls in Ireland is on the increase due to the recent successes of Katie Taylor.
