Katie Taylor Net Worth

What is Katie Taylor's Net Worth?

Katie Taylor is a professional boxer and former footballer who has a net worth of $5 million. That includes the estimated $6 million she earned in November 2024, defeating Amanda Serrano in a rematch.

Katie Taylor has been the undisputed world lightweight and light welterweight champion. She has also won multiple gold medals at the Women's World Boxing Championships, European Amateur Boxing Championships, and European Union Amateur Boxing Championships, as well as a gold medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics, all at lightweight. A huge star in her native Ireland, Taylor is credited with boosting the profile of women's boxing both at home and around the world.

Early Life and Education

Katie Taylor was born on July 2, 1986 in Bray, Ireland to Irish mother Bridget and English-born father Pete, who was a boxer. She has an older sister named Sarah and two older brothers named Lee and Peter. Taylor was educated at St. Kilian's Community School, where she boxed and played association football. She also played ladies' Gaelic football and camogie with local clubs. For her higher education, Taylor went to University College Dublin, but never completed her studies.

Amateur Boxing Career

Coached by her father, Taylor began boxing at the age of 12 in 1998. A few years later, she fought in the first officially sanctioned female boxing match in Ireland, where she defeated Alanna Audley. Taylor's first major success on the world stage was at the 2005 European Amateur Boxing Championships, where she won the gold medal in the lightweight class. She would go on to win five more medals at the European Championships between 2006 and 2014. During that same span of time, Taylor won five consecutive gold medals at the Women's World Championships. Meanwhile, from 2008 to 2013, she won five gold medals at the European Union Amateur Championships. Taylor reached an even wider level of recognition thanks to her appearance at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, the first time women's boxing had been contested at the Olympics. In the final of the lightweight division, she defeated Russia's Sofya Ochigava to claim the gold medal. Taylor returned to the Olympics in 2016, but lost in the quarterfinals.

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Professional Boxing Career

In late 2016, Taylor made her professional boxing debut in a victory over Karina Kopińska in London. She went on to win her next fight, against Viviane Obenauf, in Manchester. In her first two fights of 2017, Taylor defeated Monica Gentili and Milena Koliva. She then defeated Nina Meinke to claim the vacant WBA intercontinental female lightweight title. Later in the year, Taylor defeated Anahi Ester Sánchez for the vacant WBA female lightweight title. She successfully defended her title against Jessica McCaskill, and then Victoria Bustos. By defeating Bustos, Taylor also won the IBF female lightweight title. She went on to defend both her WBA and IBF titles in her three fights in 2018. In her first fight of 2019, against Rose Volante, Taylor again defended her WBA and IBF titles, and also won the WBO female lightweight title. She subsequently won the WBC and inaugural The Ring female lightweight titles by defeating Delfine Persoon in a controversial majority decision. As a result, Taylor became the first undisputed female lightweight champion. For her next fight, in late 2019, she moved up in weight to face Christina Linardatou for the WBO female light welterweight title. Taylor won the match by unanimous decision.

Taylor's first fight of 2020 was a rematch with Persoon. This time, she defeated Persoon by unanimous decision, retaining all of her titles. Taylor successfully defended her titles again in her match against Miriam Gutiérrez at the end of the year. She continued to retain her titles throughout 2021 and 2022 by defeating Natasha Jonas, Jennifer Han, Firuza Sharipova, Amanda Serrano, and Karen Carabajal, all but one by unanimous decision. In the spring of 2023, in a fight for the undisputed world female light welterweight championship, Taylor suffered the first professional loss of her career, losing to Chantelle Cameron. However, in a rematch with Cameron that fall, Taylor came out on top and became the undisputed female light welterweight champion. In the process, she became just the second female boxer to be an undisputed champion in two different weight classes. A year later, in late 2024, Taylor defended her undisputed title by defeating Amanda Serrano via unanimous decision. Broadcast on Netflix, the fight was reportedly the most-watched women's professional sporting event in United States history.

Association Football

Earlier in her career, Taylor played association football. After playing as a youth in the Wicklow and District Schoolboys League and the Dublin and District Schoolboys League, she played at senior club level in the Dublin Women's Soccer League. Taylor played for Lourdes Celtic, St. James's Gate, St. Catherine's, and Peamount United. In 2010, she was a member of the Peamount United squad that won a treble.

Taylor also played with the Republic of Ireland women's national football team at the under-17, under-19, and senior levels. Between 2006 and 2009, she made 11 appearances for the senior team and scored two goals. Taylor made her final international appearance in 2009 as a substitute in a FIFA Women's World Cup qualifier against Kazakhstan.

In the Media

In 2012, Taylor published her illustrated memoir "My Olympic Dream," which was co-written by Johnny Watterson. Later, in 2018, a documentary about her early life and career called "Katie" was released.

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