{"id":450711,"date":"2026-02-28T18:29:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T18:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/450711\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T18:29:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T18:29:18","slug":"id-take-the-katie-taylor-farewell-fight-says-sandy-ryan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/450711\/","title":{"rendered":"‘I’d take the Katie Taylor farewell fight’, says Sandy Ryan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Undisputed two-weight world champion Taylor, who has been described as one of the greatest boxers of all time, has not fought since she won her trilogy fight with Amanda Serrano in New York last July.<\/p>\n

Taylor said this week that she will aim to bring an end to her illustrious career in the summer,<\/a> but did not indicate who she could face.<\/p>\n

She has sparred with Ryan during training camps and has mentored the Derby boxer, who moved into the professional ranks less than five years ago. <\/p>\n

It came following a glittering amateur career that included winning gold at the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games and silver at the 2014 World Championships.<\/p>\n

The two boxers also share the same manager in Brian Peters.<\/p>\n

Ryan’s win against Zamora at the weekend marked her return to the world stage after she considered her future in the sport following back-to-back defeats by Mikaela Mayer across 2024 and 2025.<\/p>\n

“I was thinking maybe it’s time that I retire. That’s why I took a little bit of a break,” Ryan told BBC Radio Derby.<\/a><\/p>\n

“When I had the opportunity for another world title fight, I just thought you don’t really get second chances in life. So this is mine, so let’s roll the dice.”<\/p>\n

What the roll of the dice leads to next, Ryan says will have as much to do about the person she wants to be as much as the athlete she is.<\/p>\n

“Boxing is one thing but life is another,” she said.<\/p>\n

“You have to weigh both of them up. You have to do what makes you happy and also I’m getting on now. I’m 32 and I don’t know what will happen next.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Undisputed two-weight world champion Taylor, who has been described as one of the greatest boxers of all time,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-450711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450711","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=450711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}