Kriti Mehrotra
Born on July 2, 1986, in Bray, Ireland, to Bridget Cranley and Pete Taylor, as the youngest of their 4 kids, Katie Taylor has actually followed in her father’s footsteps to be a boxer. He actually became a senior light heavyweight champion boxer the year she was born, so with his and her mother’s unwavering support from an early age, she grew up to be an athlete too. However, no one could have ever imagined the glass ceilings she would break to make female boxing the mainstream sport it is today – she is essentially a pioneer for it, alongside some of her peers.
How Did Katie Taylor Earn Her Money?
It was back when Katie Taylor was merely 9 or 10 years old when she first fell in love with boxing after going to her father’s gym by pure chance in 1995, and she has never looked back. According to reports, she was already an athlete by this time, owing to her interest in track, football, Gaelic football, and more, but boxing soon became her priority as she felt completely at ease in the ring. Therefore, it comes as no surprise that her father helped her kickstart her amateur career even when there were no female events by having her hide her hair under the helmet.
Only when matches were over and Katie took her helmet off did her competitors figure out that she was a girl, especially since her father only ever introduced her as “K. Taylor.” This resulted in there being a demand for female boxing in Ireland, and in 200, at the age of 15, she did indeed fight in the first officially sanctioned match for them at the National Stadium, which she won. At this point, she was attending St. Kilian’s Community School and partaking in various sports, resulting in her reportedly being offered scholarships from several American colleges.
Yet, once Katie graduated, she chose to attend the University College Dublin not only because it was closer to home but also because it was known for its sports scholarship program. Her dream was to be an Olympic boxer, even though female boxing wasn’t even on their roster by this point, but it didn’t stop the young woman from training with that goal clear in her mind. That’s how she ended up securing gold at the European Amateur Championship in 2005 and 2006, silver at the World Amateur Championships in 2005, and gold at the World Women’s Boxing Championship in 2006.
As if that’s not enough, Katie won her third consecutive European Championship title in 2007, following which she even secured the European Union title in 2008 and the Women’s World Boxing Championship title again in 2008. Then, in 2009, she earned the WBA super bantamweight world title before successfully defending her European Union title and later also securing gold at the 2011 EU Women Boxing Championships. Furthermore, she won gold for the 3rd and 4th time at the Women’s World Boxing Championship in 2010 and 2012, shortly before the London Olympics.
The 2012 Summer Olympics in London, England, is when female boxing made its debut, and Katie lived out her once-impossible childhood dream by representing her nation and winning gold. After this, she won her fifth straight lightweight title at the Women’s World Boxing Championship in 2014, which she followed with another win at the 2015 European Games before going through a lull. Owing to familial issues, she parted ways with her father as her coach in 2016, just ahead of the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and she sadly lost in the quarter-finals.
That’s when Katie looked inward, realized she still had a lot of fight left in her, and decided to turn pro in the United States with the help of a new coach, former boxer Ross Enamait. She subsequently relocated to Connecticut too, a place where she is truly happy because it enables her to live her dream while being private since the chaos of her fame hasn’t followed her there. Since then, she has stepped into the ring for a total of 25 matches, only to walk away as the winner 24 times, 6 of which came from direct knockouts – in other words, since she has turned pro, she has lost just once.
Katie Taylor’s Earnings and Net Worth
Considering the fact that Katie Taylor has officially been competing as a female boxer since she was 15 years old, it’s safe to assume she has managed to accumulate significant wealth. The truth is, there wasn’t a lot of money in her sport when she first started out, so there were little to no purses or prize money for the competitors in the end – all they got was recognition. In fact, none of the titles she won as an amateur came with any purses, whether it be the European Amateur Boxing Championship, the Women’s World Boxing Championship, or the Women’s European Union Amateur Boxing Championships. Yet, by the early 2010s, some organizations were offering winners a cash prize of $100,000.
Katie reportedly also didn’t earn anything from the 2012 London Olympics, so it was only when she turned pro in 2016 that she began making steady money from her matches. Initially, since female boxing still wasn’t very well known, the value of the purses was just $2,000-$4,0000, but things have changed drastically since the early 2020s thanks to the shows they’ve put on. Therefore, with her currently holding all major world titles in the lightweight division – from World Boxing Association, World Boxing Council, World Boxing Organization, International Boxing Federation, and International Boxing Organization – any match she agrees to undeniably has a massive purse.
According to some reports, it is believed that Katie will earn a record-breaking $6 million after her July 11, 2025, battle with industry icon Amanda Serrano, especially as it will bring their trilogy of matches to a close. Therefore, upon taking all these aspects into account, along with her lifestyle, her public presence, as well as her possible assets, investments, and returns, we believe Katie Taylor has a net worth of $7 million.
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