{"id":544877,"date":"2026-03-18T16:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T16:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/544877\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T16:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T16:46:09","slug":"katie-taylor-responds-to-dirty-fighter-accusations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/544877\/","title":{"rendered":"Katie Taylor Responds to ‘Dirty Fighter’ Accusations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Irish boxing legend Katie Taylor is understood to be competing for the final time in her career in 2026, as she is aiming for a retirement bout<\/a> in her native country. <\/p>\n

The fighter from Bray, Ireland, currently has a professional record of 25-1 and is considered to be the Champion in Recess at super lightweight. <\/p>\n

Taylor’s last outing was the third and seemingly final match against Amanda Serrano, where she earned a majority decision victory. <\/p>\n

After the second meeting with Serrano and during the build-up to the trilogy bout, much was made of Taylor being considered a ‘dirty’ fighter; however, the boxing icon has now responded to the criticism. <\/p>\n

Katie Taylor unbothered by ‘dirty fighter’ comments\"Katie<\/p>\n

Katie Taylor (right) throwing a right hand against Amanda Serrano (left). | IMAGO \/ Inpho Photography<\/p>\n

Speaking after their second bout, Serrano said that Taylor was ‘100% intentionally’ headbutting her during the fight. “She does it in every fight. This is not the first fight.”<\/p>\n

The Puerto Rican fighter also made allegations that she was fighting in an unsportsmanlike manner against Chantelle Cameron. A head clash in the sequel meeting between the pair led to a significant gash on Serrano’s head, but Taylor said, “It was completely accidental. They’re calling me a dirty fighter and whatever, but it wasn’t purposely done.”<\/p>\n

Now, in a recent interview with Andre Ward, Taylor was asked about how she feels about these kinds of comments. <\/p>\n

“Does that mean you can’t bully me? Is that what it is? I don’t understand. If you think I’m a dirty fighter, fight dirty yourself. Don’t be complaining about it or whining about it. Do something about it.”<\/p>\n

Katie Taylor on The Art of Ward<\/p>\n

The Irish woman added, “There’s never been a case in my whole career where I’ve complained to the referee about something. If I think someone’s going to be a dirty fighter, you treat that fighter in the same way, you be dirty back.”<\/p>\n

“That’s the fight game at the end of the day.”<\/p>\n

Overall, Taylor seemed unbothered by the comments she has received in this regard. Whilst laughing, she said, “If you want to call me a dirty fighter, fair enough.”<\/p>\n

The multi-weight champion described comments in the build-up to her rubber match with Serrano as ‘ridiculous’. <\/p>\n

“I did speak up a small bit in the press conferences. Probably for the first time, I’m usually very, very quiet. I usually wouldn’t say much, but that time I had to just shut them up, a small bit.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Irish boxing legend Katie Taylor is understood to be competing for the final time in her career in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-544877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}