{"id":69812,"date":"2017-12-14T15:19:41","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T20:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=69812"},"modified":"2017-12-14T15:20:02","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T20:20:02","slug":"katie-taylor-defeats-jessica-mccaskill-boxing-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=69812","title":{"rendered":"Katie Taylor Defeats Jessica McCaskill &#8211; Boxing News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=69812\" rel=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=69812\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-69813 size-medium\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/katietaylor-300x165.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/katietaylor-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/katietaylor.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>By Joshua \u201cCity\u201d Brewer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Katie Taylor, 8-0, 4 KO\u2019s, retained her World Boxing Association (WBA) lightweight title with a unanimous decision over a game Jessica McCaskill, 5-2, 3 KO\u2019s. Taylor had to go through some adversity in the fight as she was rocked by McCaskill in the fight, and deducted a point for excessive holding in the seventh round. In the end the judges scored the fight as 98-91, and 97-92 twice. Taylor was able to stick to her boxing prowess in order to bring he fight home and seal the win. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was the toughest final of my career,&#8221; stated Taylor. &#8220;Now I would love to have a homecoming fight in Ireland next.\u201d Taylor wraps up what has been an impressive 2017 for her young career as a pro. The sky is certainly the limit in 2018 as she\u2019s one of the bright spots that will continue to be a steward for networks to offer female fighters more opportunity for shine. A fight in her native Ireland would be a great entry into a 2018 boxing year that already seems to be heading towards great things with some of the fights that have been announced thus far.<\/p>\n<p>[si-contact-form form=&#8217;1&#8242;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Joshua \u201cCity\u201d Brewer Katie Taylor, 8-0, 4 KO\u2019s, retained her World Boxing Association (WBA) lightweight title with a unanimous decision over a game Jessica McCaskill, 5-2, 3 KO\u2019s. Taylor had to go through some adversity in the fight as she was rocked by McCaskill in the fight, and deducted a point for excessive holding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[17588],"class_list":["post-69812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-katie-taylor-defeats-jessica-mccaskill-boxing-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69812"}],"version-history":[{"count":-3,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}