Five world titles and you kind of run out of meaningful superlatives to reflect what Katie Taylor has achieved during her career.
The Bray boxer won a fifth AIBA World Championship by beating Yana Alekseevna by a unanimous points decision this morning in South Korea.
And she is far from finished with the art of winning yet as she takes aim at another Olympic gold medal in Rio.
Taylor's coach Billy Walsh joined us on the line tonight to talk about her latest achievement in the context of the career-defining choice she made following the 2012 Olympics.
"The easy option for her was to go professional. She could have filled the 3 Arena on numerous occasions, especially on the back of the gold medal. But in a few fights she would be world champion because there aren't many women in world professional boxing and the ones that were there she'd beaten before as an amateur," said Walsh.
"But she went away and thought about it and she chose to go the hard route to go to Rio."
Walsh also explained why Taylor took the approach she did in the final.
"She made her fight the fight that she didn't want to fight. She made her uncomfortable and sometimes they looked like they weren't punching but the skill work that was in that competition was just fantastic," said Walsh, who said that her Azerbaijani opponent was caught in Taylor's trap.
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