{"id":10570,"date":"2022-06-23T12:46:36","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T12:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=10570"},"modified":"2022-06-23T12:46:36","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T12:46:36","slug":"iabas-appointment-of-bernard-dunne-the-perfect-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=10570","title":{"rendered":"IABA’s appointment of Bernard Dunne the ‘perfect’ call"},"content":{"rendered":"

KATIE TAYLOR HAS hailed the IABA\u2019s appointment of Bernard Dunne as their High Performance director as the \u201cperfect\u201d call.<\/p>\n

Dunne was yesterday unveiled in his new role after weeks of speculation linking the former WBA super-bantamweight world champion to the job, which was vacant since Gary Keegan\u2019s departure from the Irish Athletic Boxing Association\u2019s HP Unit back in 2008.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that\u2019s a fantastic appointment, I really do,\u201d said Taylor, who opted to call time on her decorated amateur career last year following the loss of her Olympic title at a disastrous Rio 2016 Games for Ireland.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s what the amateur boxing team needs \u2014 a real boxing man,\u201d continued the Bray native on Dunne\u2019s appointment. \u201cHe has an awful lot of respect and he\u2019s been through that system as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe knows what needs to be done and he wouldn\u2019t be afraid to ruffle a few feathers in there.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that\u2019s the perfect appointment really and I was delighted to hear that so it\u2019s exciting for the amateur team,\u201d added Taylor, who also enthusiastically predicted that it will also mean that her old cornerman and Irish head coach Zaur Antia will now be free to concentrate on duties in the gym.<\/p>\n

Antia was a key figure in Taylor\u2019s march to five world amateur titles and Olympic gold.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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The Bray native takes on Germany\u2019s Nina Meinke at Wembley Stadium tomorrow night over 10 rounds on the undercard of the much-hyped world heavyweight title clash between Anthony Joshua and Wladimir Klitschko.<\/p>\n

The WBA inter-continental lightweight belt is on the line between Taylor and fellow undefeated fighter Meinke (5-0) in their world-title eliminator \u2014 the first time both have competed in a scheduled 10 rounder.<\/p>\n

The five-time amateur world champion took just three days off following her eight-round points victory over Bulgarian Milena Koleva in Manchester last month before flying to the Connecticut base of trainer Ross Enamait.<\/p>\n

A win on Saturday will boost Taylor\u2019s record to 5-0 in the space of 22 weeks, but the 30-year-old insists she is feeling fresh.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s definitely been all go over the last few months. There hasn\u2019t been much rest in between each fight, but it\u2019s been absolutely brilliant to stay so busy,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverything\u2019s been going well, I can\u2019t complain.\u00a0 I got a great, solid three weeks with Ross out in Vernon and I\u2019ve had some great sparring sessions over there as well.<\/p>\n

German southpaw Meinke, a native of Spandau in Berlin, is 5-0 as a pro, although she has boxed less rounds (16 to Taylor\u2019s 22), despite the fact that both fighters have recorded two stoppage wins.<\/p>\n

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KATIE TAYLOR HAS hailed the IABA\u2019s appointment of Bernard Dunne as their High Performance director as the \u201cperfect\u201d call. Dunne was yesterday unveiled in his new role after weeks of speculation linking the former WBA super-bantamweight world champion to the job, which was vacant since Gary Keegan\u2019s departure from the Irish Athletic Boxing Association\u2019s HP…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}