Katie Taylor

Katie Taylor, born in 1986, is an Irish former professional boxer and footballer, a former three-time undisputed champion and the undisputed lineal world lightweight champion from 2019 to 2024, who later became undisputed world super lightweight champion on two separate occasions. As an amateur she took part in the first officially sanctioned female boxing bout in Ireland in 2001, won five consecutive gold medals at the Women's World Championships, and was pivotal in getting women's boxing into the Olympics, carrying the Irish flag at the 2012 London Games opening ceremony before winning the lightweight gold medal. She turned professional in November 2016 under promoter Eddie Hearn, won her first world title 11 months later, and beat Delfine Persoon at Madison Square Garden to become the first undisputed lightweight champion and one of the few boxers of either sex to hold all four major titles at once.