Katie Taylor

[Hopelessly Devoted]

What a great sports person. Fingers crossed for tomorrow.


Katie Taylor produced a magnificent performance to march into the lightweight final at the AIBA Women's World Championships in Ningbo City, China following a resounding 20-2 win over Russian Ayzznat Gadzhieva this morning.

It was right hands and left hooks all the way from the 22-year-old Bray woman, who was 6-1 ahead at the end of the first and 13-2 in front at the end of the second, before adding another seven points to her total in the third and final round.

Taylor, the reigning World, European and European Union champion, is now guaranteed a silver medal and will meet Cheng Dong of China in Saturday's 60Kg final.

Dong beat Cindy Orain of France 6-1 this morning. Taylor beat Orain 11-0 in last August's European Union final in Liverpool.

Commentating on this morning's result, Taylor's dad and coach Peter Taylor said that it was his daughter's best performance of the tournament so far.

Taylor senior also revealed that there were a lot of fairly vocal Irish fans at the Ningbo Youngor Gymnasium.

He said: 'Katie gave a masterclass this morning. She was absolutely outstanding. She's improving with every bout at these Championships.

'The Russian girl came to box and was attacking all the time but Katie picked her off superbly with counter punches. We have one more big test tomorrow and that is our focus now.

'A lot of Irish fans have arrived down from Beijing to cheer Katie on and they created a terrific atmosphere. The Fields of Athenry got a great blast this morning.'

The results means that for the second time in just over three months an Irish boxer will meet a Chinese opponent in a major international final in China.

Last August, Irish captain Ken Egan was desperately unlucky to lose out 11-7 to Xiaoping Zhang of China in the light heavyweight Olympic final.

The finals are at 2pm local time. Ningbo City is eight hours ahead of Ireland.

[The Gaffer]

gonna throw this out to the floor...She's tasty.

[Hopelessly Devoted]

gonna throw this out to the floor...She's tasty.

A tasty boxer, a tasty football player and yeah, all round tasty!

[The Gaffer]

Nice 'n tasty[img]smileys/wink.gif[/img]

[taz]

gonna throw this out to the floor...She's tasty.

A tasty boxer, a tasty football player and yeah, all round tasty!

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[The Gaffer]

just sayin I would is all...jesus.

[Point]

She's got a punch but in fairness, she ain't no mastermind .... [img]smileys/wink.gif[/img]

[Hopelessly Devoted]

She's got a punch but in fairness, she ain't no mastermind .... [img]smileys/wink.gif[/img]

Don't know what that means but she ain't in the Mastermind World Final tomorrow...

[Point]

She's got a punch but in fairness, she ain't no mastermind .... [img]smileys/wink.gif[/img]

Don't know what that means but she ain't in the Mastermind World Final tomorrow...

No, (and good luck to her) I watched her during the Olympics in the studio and she didn't come across as a mastermind...great sportsperson though.

To make The Gaffer's morning....

[cornerboy]

<H1>Taylor wins Women’s World Championship title</H1>
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Katie Taylor produced a magnificent performance in the lightweight final at the AIBA Women's World Championships in Ningbo City to win the Women’s World Championship title.

The 22-year-old Bray woman made it look easy as she stormed to her second consecutive world lightweight title with a 13-2 victory over outclassed Chinese Cheng Dong at the Ningbo Youngor gymnasium.

Taylor, who is the current European and European Union champion, beat Annabella Farias of Argentina in November 2006 to claim her first World title in New Delhi, India.

Commentating directly after this mornings bout, Irish team manager Anna Moore described Taylor's performance as "absolutely brilliant".

She said: "Katie was 6-0 up at the end of the first round and there was no stopping her after that. It was a brilliant performance from her from start to finish and we are all absolutely thrilled."

[Point]

Great news, hopefully they will bring women's boxing into the Olympics in time for London.

[Hopelessly Devoted]

Great news, hopefully they will bring women's boxing into the Olympics in time for London.

I heard Jimmy Magee say that if they do have women's boxing in 2012 that Katie Taylor will be one of the main reasons.


Great win.

great news. Well done to Katie Taylor. She's a rare gem of an athlete and we should be honoured that she represents us.

[jmccoy]

Fair play to Katie[img]smileys/thumb-up.gif[/img] She can box me around the bedroom anytime.</span>[img]smileys/smile.gif[/img]

[bruffian]

jayz lads,can we have any discussion about a female athlete without it having to revert to "phwoaaar,i definitely would!"

[Hopelessly Devoted]

jayz lads,can we have any discussion about a female athlete without it having to revert to "phwoaaar,i definitely would!"

Apparently not.

[bazzyg]

In fairness it is chick boxing , most of them probably only get into it to meet like minded women

[de berries]

Well Done Katie.A Fabulous Sportsperson.Good on ya.

[Stringer9]

A great boxer, a great win. She's done really well for herself.

And lads, control yereselves will ye??[img]smileys/wink.gif[/img][img]smileys/wink.gif[/img] If me or any other of the non males around here started going on about how much of a fla x, y and z were God only knows what comments we'd get back.

[SFBB]

gonna throw this out to the floor...She's tasty.

A tasty boxer, a tasty football player and yeah, all round tasty!

Rule 1.

[The Dave]

"If the Bible has taught us nothing else, and it hasn't, it's that girls should stick to girls' sports, such as hot oil wrestling and foxy boxing and such and such." ~The Simpsons by Matt Groening, spoken by the character Homer Simpson

[scourge]

Never heard of her until now but I'd love to see her box[img]smileys/wink.gif[/img]

[eoinmc]

Is there any video of the fight

[nuke]

Never heard of her until now but I'd love to see her box[img]smileys/wink.gif[/img]

haha

[bruffian]

...and it just gets cruder and cruder.

[Hopelessly Devoted]

Ignoring all the nonsense, here's a little more on her win:
<DIV =leadarticle-line>Golden girl Taylor on top of the world yet again</DIV>
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Katie Taylor capped an incredible year for Irish amateur boxing by retaining her lightweight title at the World Championships in Ningbo City, China yesterday. The Bray fighter took victory with a convincing 13-2 win over home favourite Cheng Dong. And to complete a remarkable day, she was also presented with the Boxer of the Tournament award to confirm her status as the world's number-one female pugilist.




"My target was to retain my title and I'm absolutely thrilled with this win," enthused Taylor after her historic victory. "It is a very proud moment for me to win my second world title in a row. I would also like to thank everyone for all the help and encouragement they have given me not only in China this week but also throughout the year."




Taylor reduced the vocal Chinese fans to a surreal silence after opening up a 6-0 lead during the first round before increasing her advantage to nine points in the second frame en route to glory. From there, victory was never in doubt.




The 22-year-old, who also holds European and European Union lightweight titles, has been ranked number one in both Europe and the world for the last two years, however her greatest moment may be yet to come. Her dream is to compete in the 2012 Olympics, but she is waiting on a decision from the International Olympic Committee to see if the women's boxing will be sanctioned as an Olympic sport.




The IOC are expected to make their decision next year and Taylor – whose father and coach Peter Taylor was working his daughter's corner in Ningbo City – is keeping her fingers crossed. "Hopefully we will be able to compete in the 2012 Olympics in London. I think anyone watching this would agree there have been huge strides in the sport. It was a tough World Championships, which just proves that women's boxing is improving all the time."




Meanwhile yesterday's victory ensured that Irish boxers have won medals at every tournament they have entered this year. </DIV>

[cdwc]

Katie Taylor is one of the nicest people you can meet and she does the Irish proud. We have been to many times the laughing stock in the olympic games and if the female boxing is a new discipline, she will defintely bring back the gold.

For Katie Taylor Supporters interested: www.katie-taylor.net

[cdwc]

You can watch a good few videos of Katie Taylor's boxing matches and more here
Katie Taylor Supporters

[LuckyDucker]

Taylor is European champ once again</font>
Saturday, 27 June 2009 rte

Katie Taylor was crowned European Union champion for the second year running following an 8-1 win over Bulgarian lightweight Denitza Eliseevan in Pazardjik, Bulgaria on Saturday.

The win was the 22-year-old Irish woman's 35th in a row and the third time on the trot she has beaten an opponent from the host nation in a major international final.

Last November she beat Chinese lightweight Cheng Dong 13-2 to retain her title at the AIBA World Championships in Ningbo City, China.

And she followed that up with a 5-1 win over Turkey's Ozlem Dinc to claim gold at the prestigious Ahmet Cup in Istanbul,Turkey in April of this year.

The victory, achieved over four, two minute rounds, confirms that Irish boxers have claimed 10 medals at European Union level in the last seven days.

Last weekend the Irish men's team won three gold, three silver and three bronze medals and the 'team of the tournament' award at the European Union Senior Championships in Odense, Denmark.

Peter Taylor, who was working his daughter's corner along with Pat Ryan in Pazardjik, said that they were thrilled with today's win.

He said: 'Katie boxed fabulously and she is delighted to have retained her title. She produced three great performances in three days to win this gold medal and this is another proud moment for her.'

The boxer of the tournament award will be announced later today. Taylor, who boxes out of the Bray BC, scored 33 points in her three wins in Bulgaria and conceded four.

Well done Katie[img]smileys/thumb-up.gif[/img]