Taylor and Rousey are titans of combat sports, with Ireland\u2019s Taylor arguably the greatest women\u2019s boxer of all time, and Rousey an icon of the UFC \u2013 the flagship promotion in mixed martial arts (MMA).<\/p>\n
On Monday, BoxingScene reported that the pair could meet in a boxing match in Las Vegas in the coming months, and Taylor said on Tuesday that it was \u201cthe first I\u2019ve heard about it\u201d, but that she was \u201cvery open\u201d to the bout.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe\u2019s an iconic figure herself in female sport, and she has an amazing mentality,\u201d said Taylor on Tuesday, speaking at the WBC convention in Bangkok, Thailand.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou don\u2019t get to the position that she\u2019s in without a fantastic mind, without a fantastic mentality. So, it\u2019s just a a very interesting fight for me.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the first I\u2019ve heard about it as well, this morning. I look at all the headlines, and I\u2019m thinking: \u2018Okay, I\u2019m up for this fight, I\u2019m ready for this fight, and I\u2019ll be very excited for this fight as well.\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n
The Independent has approached Taylor\u2019s promoter, Matchroom Boxing, for comment.<\/p>\n
Taylor, a former two-weight undisputed champion and Olympic gold medalist, last fought in July, outpointing fellow great Amanda Serrano for the third time and recently surrendered her WBC world super-lightweight belt after announcing a break from the sport to attend to \u2018personal matters\u2019. <\/p>\n
Taylor, 39, possesses a professional boxing record of 25-1. Her sole defeat came in 2023, when she was outpointed by Chantelle Cameron, whom she beat via decision in a rematch the same year.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Rousey was 12-2 in MMA before retiring. The American has not fought since 2016, when she failed to recapture the UFC bantamweight title against Amanda Nunes.<\/p>\n
The 38-year-old lost her final two bouts, suffering a knockout by Nunes inside 48 seconds after a 2015 KO by Holly Holm. However, she was a pioneer of women\u2019s MMA, known for her grappling prowess and quick submission wins.<\/p>\n
She later began to appear in films and has had multiple stints in professional wrestling under the WWE banner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taylor and Rousey are titans of combat sports, with Ireland\u2019s Taylor arguably the greatest women\u2019s boxer of all…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,19,17,26779,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-211862","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-katie-taylor","12":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}