I remember seeing her move with my naked eye for the first time. I was like: ‘What in the name of God is this?’”
Peter Carroll, a combat-sports journalist and Dublin native, is recalling his first time meeting Katie Taylor. “She was 2-0. Me and maybe five other media guys are called to this tiny boxing gym in rural Ireland,” Carroll tells The Independent, leaning over a raised table in the foyer of the Convention Centre Dublin. “The gym’s roof is leaking, it’s this run-down spot, there’s room for the boxing ring and nothing else.”
