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Inside Katie Taylor's personal life beyond boxing from reconciling with dad Pete to dating history

Inside Katie Taylor's personal life beyond boxing from reconciling with dad Pete to dating history

The Irish Sun11-07-2025
KATIE Taylor will be cheered by her whole family tonight as she battles Amanda Serrano for a third time.
After months of hints, it's been confirmed in the lead-up to this match-up that she
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She reportedly earned $6million from her last bout with the Puerto Rican
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Father Pete has been helping out with her training camp for this July 11 fight
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Mother Bridget has been by the 39-year-old's side from day one
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Katie with brother Lee (left), sister Sarah and other brother Peter (right)
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Here, SunSport delves into their complicated past as well as her wider family life:
ESTRANGED YEARS
They were estranged for roughly three years after Pete, 61, left Katie's mother
The strain of her parents' marriage clearly affected Katie's preparations for the 2016 Olympics.
Without her dad in her corner for the first time, she under-performed and was
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The first breadcrumb that she had begun to mend fences with Pete came in 2019 when
English-born Pete has previously
Speaking in 2019, he reflected: 'She has good morals. She said if you've split up with my mother then I don't want you in my corner.
'She knew what the outcome would be. She knew that she'd be missing me in the corner but she still had the morals to go ahead and do that.
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'You've got to respect that. She was reared good. There's not many people who'd risk losing a European, Worlds and Olympic title by not having your father as a coach."
WIDER FAMILY
Katie has two brothers named Lee and Peter as well as a sister called Sarah. Katie is the baby of the bunch.
Katie Taylor emotionally reconciles with dad Pete after NINE YEARS and welcomes him back for Amanda Serrano trilogy
Mother Bridget has been a rock throughout Katie's entire ring career.
In an interview with
She recalled: "Katie was a tomboy; she wouldn't have been your typical girl. I have two girls and two sons.
"Katie was very close to her older brother, there's only a year and a couple of months between them, other people used to think they were twins when they were growing up!
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A multi-sport star, she earned 11 senior Republic of Ireland caps between 2006-2009
"They would have played a lot of sport together. They played a lot of football on the bank where we lived and they were in running club together.
"She was just really good at sports when she was younger, all kinds of sports. She was really good at sprinting, she ran for the county, she won a few county medal and an all schools 1500m race as well.
"She played soccer for Ireland too, she captained the team."
DATING HISTORY
Katie tends to keep this part of her private life just that.
It's very noticeable that about the only time the mild-mannered Bray native gets irked during interviews is when she's quizzed about her love life.
In one exchange with The Athletic she told of how it is her least favourite line of inquiry.
Taylor outlined: "Probably the question about relationships. That's another question people always ask. I guess people are just interested in my personal life.
"I get it all the time. It's a bit annoying at times but I'm just polite and get on with it. I don't think male boxers get asked it, though."
She's also previously explained to
She said: "I'm not [seeing anyone] at the moment, I really genuinely haven't got the time. I'm just out in America training hard at the moment but who knows what could happen in the future."
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