Katie Taylor v. Amanda Serrano

I’m well aware of his role and significance in all this, and it is essential to sport/entertainment that people like Hearn are involved. They get things done.

I just really got a sense/vibe off him in his interview that he was all about squeezing more.

Anyway, Katie is her own person. She’s of sound mind, and if she wants more in her head and heart, that is her right.

Id just personally prefer if she went out right at the top, which is where she is at right now.

This was exactly my point. Greed and squeezing..

Katie is well off. Financially secure, set for life, not in need of money; and not a person I would think as being driven by money.

Horse racing isnt a sport. A sport must rely on you not been on the best horse

Sonia never won an Olympic medal and has nowhere as many world or european medals. Then didnt go on to be undisputed world champ in essentially another sport

Add to that, how many caps for Ireland football does Katie have??

O’Sullivan does have an Olympic medal. She has 3 world gold and 3 European golds. She’d have had more too if Europeans weren’t every 4 years when she was running.

FWIW I might have been the first person to say boxing is a minority sport (that attracts a bandwagon) and I’ll stand by that. So is Athletics. I was talking in an Irish context and I’ll say it again; the general Irish sporting fan couldn’t name 10 boxers (or 10 track and field athletes).

Anyone who’s been to the Stadium to see the elite senior finals will tell you it’s mostly friends and family at it. Same applies to the national championships in pretty much every sport here.

That it’s a historic sport isn’t in question. That it has passionate fans all over the world isn’t in question.

As individual sports go, boxing in Ireland is not a minority sport. Every county has clubs. All Ireland sport with a large participation.

dozens and dozens clubs in Dublin alone

Boxing is our most successful Olympic sport by a county mile

I'm going to hazard a guess you don't watch women's boxing as you are doing it a massive disservice, it's never been better than it is right now. And the single greatest difference to the men's is there's no politics, no **** around the best fight the very best hence why I rate Katie's achievements do highly.

Michelle Smith is a drugs cheat and Frampton doesn't come close to Katie's achievements imo, sonia osullivan either

Kean and Brady and the cyclists have a case, agreed. I love Steve Collins he was my boxing idol as a kid but I could pick holes in his resume (if I wasn't such a fan that is) 😂

Anyone else find Chris Mannix on commentary very biased toward Serrano?

Enthusiastically praising anything she landed and barely acknowledging Taylor's punches.

It may be the best it's been, but that doesn't make the talent pool good. Taking the boxrec rankings for Katie's division, there are 120 pro fighters in total and you don't need to go far down the rankings to find fighters with losing records or with less than 5 fights in total.

It's also worth noting that Taylor's best wins prior to Saturday were against a woman with a day job, and in the case of the first of those fights with Persoon, it's being charitable in the extreme to call that a "win".

I don't like being the party pooper, and think when you add up the gold medal with the pro career and the soccer, Katie has had an amazing career in sport, but when people are comparing her to Ali and Frazier, and putting her down as Ireland's greatest sportsperson, I think it's important to put things in a bit of perspective.

I never ebs

Don't think anyone has compared her to Ali or Joe what they have compared is that fight in msg which Ron katz and bunce etc have all said is up there with some of the best that venue has ever seen.

Are these debates really necessary? Why not just enjoy Taylors achievements and leave it at that.

Cross country running is not an Olympic sport.

Yeah. Relatively speaking we’ve had some excellent boxers

The problem is that not enough people care about it outside of the Olympic Games. Joe Ward and Jason Quigley are 2 of only 3 Irishmen to reach the world championship finals (Ward twice) and most sports fans couldn’t tell you a single thing about them

Same applies for all Olympic sports too btw. It’s a shame

She did but **** me that was a tough fight especially so early in Katie's career, mccaskill was never meant to be that good. Tough fucker. A rematch I really hope Katie never takes.