Turning professional was one thing, but securing both the right team and commercial backing was another challenge.<\/p>\n
First came manager Peters, who initially stepped in out of concern for her future.<\/p>\n
“I only took her on not to see her end up with people who didn’t know what they were doing,” Peters says.<\/p>\n
On 4 October 2016, Taylor sent Matchroom’s Eddie Hearn a direct message on Twitter, now known as X, asking if he would consider promoting her. Hearn replied 24 hours later, inviting Taylor, Peters, and her mother Bridget to a London restaurant. Hearn even borrowed his father’s car to impress Taylor.<\/p>\n
The charm offensive worked and Taylor made her debut at Wembley Arena a month later.<\/p>\n
In a sport notorious for fractured relationships and bitter splits, Taylor’s core team has remained the same from day one with Peters, Hearn and trainer Ross Enamait.<\/p>\n
“In a business full of egos, she’s stayed loyal to everyone around her and remained the most humble person you could ever meet,” Peters says.<\/p>\n
Had Hearn dismissed that DM – or had Taylor lacked the enduring loyalty that kept the same tight-knit team in her corner for a decade – the promotional engine that transformed women’s boxing might never have started.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Turning professional was one thing, but securing both the right team and commercial backing was another challenge. First…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":877165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-877164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=877164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/877165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}