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RIP Shane mc Gowan

An incredible talent. RIP.

All part of the wider drive to "elite performance" throughout the association. Got a good laugh last year when some S&C lad on Twitter was proudly showing off the end of season tests they were putting the Offaly U14 development squad through. "Putting them through their paces".

I think she was just caught off balance, it was more of a push than a jab, still it's a knockdown. Hard to credit in a fight where boxers are battering each other to bits, that such a harmless knockdown would cost you the round by 2 points. It looked so accidental and with Katie popping back up instantly, could it be that the ref just didn't deem it worthy of a knockdown and subsequent points penalty?

If she gets punched and she goes down, it's a knockdown. If she's off balance and a punch puts her down, it's a knockdown. Ref can't decide a punch wasn't forceful enough to put her down and therefore rule it not a knockdown.

Ref must have decided it was either a slip (hard to see how as she definitely got tagged) or she tripped as Cameron may have stood on her foot.

Derek Wilford. Jackson next please.

Irelands greatest female boxer. Anything else is subjective.

Why was the knockdown not given in the 2nd? Looked fine.

Hard to know - clip here shows Cameron possibly stepping on her foot. I thought it was ok at the time as well.

My immediate reaction is she doesn't need a Croke Park end trilogy, the atmosphere there 2nite was mental, the fight was fantastic, it won't be topped imo - making mega retirement ££ is another matter tho.

CP could backfire on them. Atmosphere there tonight belies the fact that they struggled to sell the fight out.

I remember when Andy Lee was supposed to get his homecoming in Limerick against BJS and the interest simply wasn't there to put it on in the Gaelic Grounds and he ended up having to go to Manchester.

Croke Park getting a good plug. Will GAA HQ make more of effort to make it happen?

Eddie being Eddie, i.e. a p***k.

Croker is there for him if he wants to pay the going rate for it, just like last time. He wants it subsidised.

Thon one trying to hog the highlight needs to get out of the ring

It's her ma.

One of the judges went for a draw? At least the other two called the fight as it was. Well done Katie Taylor that win simply adds to her legacy.

Several of the rounds very close. A draw a fairer card than the 98-92 one.

Trilogies hold a special place in boxing lore. Surely we'll get one here. Majority decision for each of them in close, terrific, brutal fights.

Incredible performance and comeback from Taylor. An icon.

Could be 7-3, 6-4 Taylor or even 5-5 for me. Some very close rounds.

Terrific fight. Katie looked the best she has in years and fought smartly. A lot of tactical holding in the second half of the fight.

There it is, surely won the 9th.

Cameron looking stronger and fresher come the final rounds. Taylor taking a breather maybe. Almost certainly didn't win the 8th but steal 9 or 10 and I think she has it.

4-1 KT at halfway point for me, maybe 3-2.

Would like to see a better replay of the slip/knockdown. Think she might have got G with one.

Terrific fight. Katie much better than in first fight already but Cameron landing plenty as well.