BOXING | MICHAEL FOLEY
In a great year of sport – was Katie Taylor’s night in New York the greatest?
Taylor’s fight at Madison Square Garden is one that everybody who witnessed it will never forget
The Sunday Times
Where to begin. Where to begin with the greatest sporting contest you have ever seen? Where does the mind go? Back to the moment the ring announcer David Diamante called the tribes of boxing together from the four corners of the world to four corners of the ring at Madison Square Garden, drowned out by the shattering noise of the crowd that rattled every screw of the old cathedral?
Maybe the glorious tenth round that ended with Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano toe-to-toe, flailing ferociously at each other in the most brutal expression of Corinthian spirit, before collapsing into each other’s arms at the final bell. Or the cataclysmic fifth when Serrano unleashed the full force of her power battering Taylor into the ropes, to
