‘She carried it on her back to the grandest stages’: How Katie Taylor transformed women’s boxing

Katie Taylor was a 10-year-old hiding her hair in a headguard so she could fight boys. Now she leaves women's boxing after ...

‘Every girl now wants to be a boxer’: excitement in Katie Taylor’s home town for her valedictory bout

Irish boxer lauded for her tenacity and inspiration before her last fight in front of 80,000 people at Croke Park ...
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Skye Nicolson reveals the best female boxer she’s ever seen

Skye Nicolson (14-1, 3 KOs) outclassed Sarah Mahfoud to win the WBC featherweight title in 2024, a belt she defended twice ...
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'That's the legacy I want': KATIE TAYLOR reflects on career as she prepares to bid farewell

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY CHARLOTTE DALY: Thirty years ago, a little girl from Bray had to hide her hair under headgear and ...
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Pakistan's girls fight for their place in the boxing ring

Pakistan's girls fight for their place in the boxing ring ...
CNN

Cecilia Brækhus was told women couldn’t enter boxing gyms. She still became an undisputed champion despite a ban on the sport

Cecilia Brækhus embarked on her against-the-odds career in professional boxing almost two decades ago, and she’s hardly stopped fighting before or since. Along the way, her opponents have been many ...
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Pakistani Esma Atif was told boxing could hurt her marriage. She now wants girls to fight

Against all odds, Esma Atif became a boxer in 2017. But for her parents, the concern was usual: what if she breaks her nose ...
Daily Mail

GENERATION KATIE: These dedicated girls - aged from just eight to 14 - reveal how their boxing hero Katie Taylor has already changed their young lives for good... and …

The young female boxers were wide-eyed when their hero told them she had to pretend to be a boy when she started. 'That is ...

Katie Taylor: ‘I was walking to some boxing gyms as a young girl being sniggered at and laughed at’

In the last press conference of her boxing career, Taylor is in relaxed mood, finally allowing herself to think about her ...
Time

Olympic Women's Boxing Has Its First Champions, and a Generation of Girls Have New Role Models

Ireland's Katie Taylor (L) fights Russia's Sofya Ochigava during their Women's Light (60kg) gold medal boxing match at the London Olympic Games August 9, 2012. REUTERS/Murad Sezer (BRITAIN - Tags: ...