By Elliot Foster
Katie Taylor continued her rise in the paid code with her second win.
The Bray super-featherweight, who won Olympic gold at London 2012 and is the fighting pride of her nation, made her pro debut just two weeks ago, stopping Karina Kopinska inside three.
And the 30-year-old beat Viviane Obenauf of Switzerland to remain, exclusively live on Sky Sports Box Office.
Their fight came as part of the supporting cast to Anthony Joshua’s second IBF heavyweight world title defence against Eric Molina at the Manchester Arena,
Obenauf was defensive from the off, but the Swiss-based Brazilian, who slips to 9-2 with four early, was unravelling early on.
She was knocked down early in the second round and Taylor, in truth, was in complete control but didn’t look like getting the stoppage.
It went the distance and referee Darren Sarginson handed Taylor the victory over the bloodied Obenauf –– who was cut by the left eye –– by a margin of 60 points to 53 after six two-minute stanzas.
Also on the card, former world champion Scott Quigg (32-1-2, 24KOs), now in the featherweight ranks, captured the vacant WBA International title, with a ninth round knockout of Jose Cayetano (20-5, 9KOs)
Quigg has been out of the ring since suffering his first career defeat at the hands of Carl Frampton back in February in their super bantamweight unification. He suffered a broken jaw in the fight and needed months to recover from surgery. He made a decision to move up featherweight, where Frampton moved to earlier this year.
Quigg was taking the fight to Cayetano in the early going, but he wasn't able to do much damage. Cayetano was able to take his power, but he didn't have the power himself to do damage on Quigg. Cayetano's durability was no surprise, since he's never been stopped in his career.
Quigg's face was showing the signs of damage in the eight, but he wasn't being affected by the punches that were landing on him. During the ninth, Quigg landed a hug counter that Cayatano that sent down on his back. He was laid out against the ropes and made no real effort to get back on his feet and the referee waved off the contest.
