Tiah-Mai dreams of following Taylor to the top and hopes doing so sparks the next generation of female fighters.<\/p>\n
“I want to inspire them,” she tells Newsbeat.<\/p>\n
“Women’s boxing is getting big but it could get better.<\/p>\n
“Hopefully by the time I’ve finished my career, it’ll be easier for women to be treated the same as men in the sport.”<\/p>\n
Her similiarities with Katie Taylor go beyond having big reputations.<\/p>\n
They share a promoter after Tiah-Mai signed with Eddie Hearn’s Matchroom Boxing.<\/p>\n
While she aims to be part of a main event in future, the teenager’s on the undercard before Kieron Conway’s title defence against George Liddard on Friday.<\/p>\n
She says she fights “better under pressure” and is eyeing her first knockout despite admitting she knows little about her opponent.<\/p>\n
“No-one has ever stopped her,” says Tiah-Mai.<\/p>\n
“I think if I do stop her, it’s going to be a big statement from me.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tiah-Mai dreams of following Taylor to the top and hopes doing so sparks the next generation of female…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-206544","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}