Katie Taylor comprehensively beat Bulgaria’s Denista Eliseeva at the Royal Theatre in Castlebar last night 48-hours after dispatching Ukrainian Yulia Tsiplakova at Dublin’s Bord Bord Gáis Energy Theatre.
The AIBA World No 1 earned a landslide 25-8 decision over the Bulgarian (who controversially beat her in Bulgaria in 2011) in Mayo. Taylor won the first round 6-2, was 12-3 up after the second and took an 18-5 lead from the third into the fourth and final frame.
Meanwhile, America’s Holly Holm, a multiple World pro champion, has indicated she would be interested in meeting Taylor to decide who is the best pound-for-pound female fighter in the world.
Holm said she appreciates what Taylor has done for female boxing following her gold medal win at the Olympics, but added she would be confident of beating her.
The Albuquerque southpaw has won 32 of her 37 outings and is the current World light-welterweight and welterweight champion and has claimed The Ring Best World Female Pro Boxer award twice.
Taylor’s dad and coach Pete Taylor said his daughter would have no problem stepping into the ring with Holm, who claims she is of Irish descent.
He said: “Katie has great respect for what Holly Holm has achieved in her career and in professional boxing and she’d love to box her. Katie knows it would be a difficult fight but she’d relish the challenge.”
Current European champion Ray Moylette beat Galway’s Patrick Mongan 19-7 on the Taylor/Eliseeva undercard in a repeat of February’s Irish Elite Championships quarter-final which Moylette won 14-7.
Taylor, meantime, will be aiming for her fifth European Union title in-a-row in Hungary this summer.
She heads out to a training camp in Kazakhstan with the Irish men’s Elite team on April 3rd.
Her next outing will be against France on May 5th in Cork.