Katie Taylor v. Amanda Serrano

People genuinely under estimate the sheer pressure Katie performs under. The expectation people have for her. It's enough to make many crack which is why I rate her achievements so highly.

Most Irish sports stars over achieve so don't perform under close to same level of pressure, Katie has had serious expectation on her time after time.

I see talk of a rematch potentially in Croke Park but do people really think that it could fill it?

I know there is no better nation than the Irish for bandwagon jumping but boxing here isn't that well supported. It's also a sport that does itself no favours in that regard aside from Katie and Kelly.

The GOAT of a field that can hardly be considered to have near the depth that Ali and Frasier had in front of them though. Not her fault though and she can only fight the opponent's in front of her.

It's because of the lack of depth that makes it impossible to frame her achievement against others where their sport is more widely played. It's the same argument that rugby players come up against, or why GAA players never really rank in all time greatest sportspeople.

When will she be coming back to Dublin airport? Reckon she will have a bit of a turn out

I don't begrudge Katie a gimmick fight especially if it was an easy payday for her as she deserves it, but Cyborg and Holm who I both like are not going to provide that payday. Talented but their is no money in those fights no matter the rules. I'd be shocked if Dana let Holm fight anyway.

I dunno if the second Serrano fight can happen here, but I 'd assume its easy fight to make abroad again.

Do you agree that she's the best ever at her profession? Do you agree that she's reached a huge audience worldwide? The second bit puts her in the Ali/Frazier realm. The fact she's unbeaten while they both lost a few fights(Ali 5, Frazier 4) puts her on their level as well.

The boxing GOAT is Floyd Mayweather.

One last comment on the fight. It's amazing how gracious Serrano was in defeat. You don't often see that and she deserves so much credit for it.

Floyd is not. Probably not even top 5

Yes, she's the best ever at her profession as a female boxer, she is an exceptional athlete and fantastic role model for young people. The cachet associated with of being the best of your profession is closely related to the depth of talent in the pool you're competing in though. The world elephant polo champions don't get the same recognition as the FIFA world cup winners for that reason. The depth of talent in women's boxing isn't there yet.

I don't agree though that she has reached a huge audience worldwide. She is not a sports superstar outside of Ireland, she hasn't got anything like the a quarter of the profile of say Serena Williams. Step outside of Ireland and ask the common person on the street have they heard of Ali they will likely say yes, ask about Taylor, unless they are into boxing they will likely say no.

This can be easy to forget that what is considered big or important here in Ireland is not big or important elsewhere.

Katie is a huge name in Ireland and Britain....as for Europe and global, maybe not huge, but would be known.

Also if taking in all era's then Jimmy McLarnin is Ireland's greatest ever fighter and it's not even remotely close tbh. Beat 13 individual hall of famers. Shame he's now literally an unknown. Most people who know their stuff on the history of the sport would say he's a top 25 boxer of all time.

I was meaning name recognition. Lot of famous people could walk places and not get physically identified/noticed; only a select few global superstars would get this type visual street recognition.

Katie is a big name in a lot of places, and has been since before 2012. Her name was everywhere pre 2012 Olympics, and was seen as the face of women's boxing at those historic games. The main driver for why women got to London

Since London she has become even more known

What?

So outside of Ireland, Katie Taylor's name is not known well across areas of society? This is just not true...

Nobody is saying she is Messi/Ronaldo/Federer, but your take is way off here.

I would say there's very little name recognition with Katie Taylor outside of Boxing fans in the UK. Same applies to most boxers though, including British ones, perhaps you're overstating the general publics interest in boxing outside of the massive names like Fury and Joshua.

I doubt even Dillain Whyte would have much name recognition outside of boxing, and he was just in the biggest attended fight on UK soil ever.