Katie Taylor's proud dad and former coach Pete Taylor took to Instagram to pay tribute to his daughter with an emotional message after her historic title defence against Amanda Serrano in New York last night.
Alongside a picture of Katie with the tricolour after last night's fight, Pete Taylor wrote: "Proud of her inside and out of the ring, for all that she is and all she has achieved."
The Bray puncher survived a barrage from her Puerto Rican rival in the fifth round and wrestled back control of a compelling fight in the closing rounds - winning a bout that will go down in history as one of the great Madison Square Garden scraps.
Both Taylor, 35, and Serrano, 33, pocked a cool $1million for their night's work.
The undisputed lightweight queen and father Pete enjoyed incredible success together in amateur boxing, culminating in the Olympic gold medal the Bray fighter won in 2012.
But the pair went their separate ways in 2016 after the breakdown of Pete's marriage to Katie's mother Bridget.
Later that year, Katie crashed out at the quarter-final stage of the Olympic Games in Rio, suffering a defeat to Finland’s Mira Potkonen.
Speaking to Ryan Tubridy on the Late Late Show last year, the lightweight champion explained how 2016 had been a year of "turmoil".
She said: "I would describe that whole year as 'turmoil', there was a lot of turmoil within our family relationships and it is no secret at this stage that myself and my dad parted ways throughout that year and my whole training regime was turned upside down.
"I was going from club to club just trying to get spars here and there. I was sleeping in the car in between sessions and I wasn't eating properly.
"But I still genuinely believed I was going to win gold and I believed that was my destiny.
"When things don't pan out the way you hoped and dreamed, you can't underestimate how heart-breaking that is. As an athlete with my mentality, winning is everything and that was easily the lowest point of my career."
Katie and her dad were pictured together for the first time in public since their split in late 2019.
In her documentary, 'Katie' she said: "The first time I had to go training without him, I was driving in by myself and the tears were rolling down my face.
"I just felt like every time I was stepping into the ring without my dad at that time, I was missing an arm."
Meanwhile, Pete previously told the Paddy Holohan No Shame podcast: "She (Katie) has good morals. She said 'if you’ve split up with my mother, then I don’t want you in my corner.'
"She knew what the outcome would be. She knew that she’d be missing me in the corner but she still had the morals to go ahead and do that. You’ve got to respect that. She was reared good.
"There’s not many people who’d risk losing a European, World and Olympic title by not having your father as a coach.
"She backed her ma ...although it’s hurtful for me - but I’ve still got to take my hat off to her."
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