At the 2014 World Championships in Jeju, South Korea, Katie Taylor’s dad Pete, who was coaching her, was asked if it was part of her instructions to go toe to toe with Mira Potkonen, the Finnish lightweight.
His smiling face was the answer. The flying fists part of the show, that was Katie’s rewrite, her script enhancement.
Seeded number one in the competition, Taylor had been given a bye and beat Potkonen in the second round.
But at one eye-catching point she stood in the middle of the ring for a “tear-up”. She couldn’t help herself. It went explicitly against the instructions given to her by Pete, who would usually emphasise her elusive style, speed and shot placement, far away from the brawl end of b …
- May 3, 2022
