‘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 ...
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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 ...
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'Stunning' Ring Girl At Boxing Match Has Been Identified

Promoter Eddie Hearn says "the whole story, you couldn't make it up", when speaking of Katie Taylor's journey. An inside look at Katie Taylor's emotional final fight week as 80,000 fans prepare to ...
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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 ...
Washington Post

She’s the first female boxer in her club. She’s also in middle school.

Andrea Girón, 13, eyes her opponent, 12-year-old Taylor “Too Tuff” Hill, during a boxing match at Shirley C. Heim Middle School in Stafford, Virginia on Aug. 16. (Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post) ...
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'I have a lot of respect for her': Pakistan's first female CWG boxing medallist credits Mary Kom for inspiring her

Growing up in Pakistan's Punjab province, Fatima Zahra had few female boxing role models in her own country. She found one across the border in India's MC Mary Kom, whose journey inspired her to take ...

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 ...
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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 ...
Independent.ie

The Taylor effect: ‘If Katie didn’t exist, boxing wouldn’t exist for women’

“If Katie Taylor didn’t exist, boxing wouldn’t exist for women, and I really, really believe that.” With the end of Taylor’s ...
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Boxing-French female boxers barred from world championships over genetic testing issue

PARIS (Reuters) -French female boxers have been barred from competing at the inaugural World Boxing Championships in Liverpool after failing to meet a deadline for a genetic sex test that the French ...