Taylor picked up a unanimous decision victory against American Jessica McCaskill at York Hall, but despite entering the bout as a 1/200 favourite, the Irish star didn't have it all her own way.
Taylor is set for a big homecoming fight in Ireland in 2018, but BBC boxing commentator Mike Costello and renowned boxing journalist Steve Bunce both think she has plenty of room for improvement despite her 100% start to life as professional.
Speaking on the BBC 5 Live Boxing Podcast, the duo voiced a number of criticisms of Taylor following last week's win.
"A scrappy performance and what I thought it demonstrated and showed us is just how leaky Katie Taylor's defence is," Costello said.
"I noticed parts of it before but it was really very seriously leaky this time."
"There were times in the fight when she was launching single shots, single jabs, single right hands," he continued.
"She could not miss. It was so easy, and I use that word, it was so easy. It was embarrassingly one-sided but that wasn't enough for her, she wanted to get involved. I thought it actually showed a lack of a boxing brain."
Bunce added that he thinks Katie Taylor needs to change here style in the professional game, and said that he has had words with people in the Bray boxer's camp over his comments in the past.
"I was a little bit surprised by how often she was hit by a six-bout novice," Bunce said.
"Six of those contests that McCaskill had, three of them were making their debut. She didn't fight a seasoned woman who's coming from loads of World Championships and Olympic qualifiers and Olympics and trials. I was a little bit surprised."
"Taylor now eight fights in, she's an Olympic champion, all those World Championships and European titles," he added.
"I was really surprised and I'm just wondering if maybe she has to revert back a little bit to the pick and hit Katie Taylor that was so brilliant. I've had a few run-ins with Katie's people over me saying that she needs to slow down and do what she does best and stop thinking she's Mike Tyson."
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