This has gone on for way too long now.
She’s a World Champion. She’s our World Champion. Every time she steps inside a boxing ring, it becomes hallowed, it becomes sacred.
Katie Taylor is representing this country, she’s representing Ireland, and she does it with bloody pride, too. Every single time.
Because Katie Taylor is Irish born and bred. She’s from Wicklow, she was born in Bray, but the grit she shows, the frightening head of steam she generates, that ability to suffer, that inner-strength she stores inside her that explodes when she has a chance to do herself and her people proud inside the ring – that’s the Katie Taylor we know and that’s why we love her.
She fights in one of her biggest ever bouts tonight in London’s York Hall. The 31-year-old is in the headline fight and she’s the title holder. The World title-holder. We don’t have many of them in Ireland, and those we do have, Jesus we cherish them. Jesus, we cherish her.
She’s the attraction for the 1200 crowd in London tonight. Even though it’s taking place across the water, her every punch, her every grimace, her every show of freakish determination will be done with Ireland on her brain, and Ireland coursing through her veins.
This is it for Taylor. This is her building her legacy in pro boxing like she did in the amateur ranks when she earned these opportunities.
What Katie Taylor has to put up with ahead of her biggest ever fight is unbelievably sad | SportsJOE.ie https://t.co/x5bRXkCySK
— Pierce Rooney (@PierceRooney) October 25, 2017
This is bigger than Rio 2016, it’s bigger than London 2012.
And Sky Sports go and call her British less than five hours before she enters the ring to take on American challenger Jessica McCaskill.
This is the Katie Taylor who makes sporting legends like Paul McGrath say their proud to share the same nationality as her.
Excuse me @SkySportNewsHP Katie Taylor is not BRITISH!!! she's Irish!!! #don'tdothat #katietaylor pic.twitter.com/EW1nL2fOZn
— kevin butler (@kevinbutler1982) December 13, 2017
How long is Katie Taylor going to have to put up with this? What the hell does she have to do to stop this rubbish?
Because it’s not the first time it’s happened. Sky Sports called her British only one month and a half ago, and they apologised for it straight after. Craig Slater will probably apologise for it, but that’s not the point.
The point is that Katie Taylor is Irish and they know that, everybody knows that, why and how the hell do they keep making these mistakes?
