Katie Taylor

[Great-Bit-O-Stuff]

 

[Christy Bling]

Michelle Smith - 5 Gold Medals in the Olympics
Clean as a whistle
Untouchable
Medal haul intact

 

[El Guapo]

Michelle Smith - 5 Gold Medals in the Olympics
Clean as a whistle
Untouchable
Medal haul intact

3 Golds and a Bronze

 

[bluesball]

Was hill 16 open for the fight?

 

[Matlock]

Was hill 16 open for the fight?

Nope. Didn't seem to be.

 

[Great-Bit-O-Stuff]

Gawd forbid people should discuss Katie Taylor on the Katie Taylor thread.

 

[Warm Leatherette]

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Biggest moaner on the entire site accuses me of being offended.

 

[Crusty Ring]

Another thing to mention about Katie is she also has 11 caps for the Ireland women's football team and potentially would have went on to have a career in that if she didn't go down the boxing road

 

[El Guapo]

I was in the Excel arena when she won her Gold in 2012.

it was the most wonderful communal sense of Joy and relief the crowd must've been 90% Irish.

it was an intense cauldren of an atmosphere. I would go as far as to say the Brit Nicola Adams who was in the flyweight final before KT got a few decision she no right to.

Tayler's fight was just a bag of nerves. The Russian was cagey and saucey but the aftermath was just incredible.

I'll hold a fondness for her forever for giving us that day.

She was robbed in the 2016 Olympics by corrupt officiating (Remember Michael Conlon)

She created her own sport, she was that good. No Katie, No Womens olympic boxing, No Kellie Harrington.

 

[BettyDoesMallow]

Very few athlete's on the planet male or female could sell 80,000 tickets for an event.

Last night was obviously the pinnacle but when you add in head lining MSG and all the Olympic success along with being a trailblazer it’s hard to pick another Irish athlete that tops all of that.

Over 65% of Irish adults watched the fight, either in person, on RTE TV or RTE Player.
You'd have to go back to Kim Jong Il's funeral to find such a high %.