Katie Taylor has spent a career carrying Irish boxing on her shoulders. On Saturday night, she carries it into Croke Park for the final time.
The undisputed super lightweight champion will close the curtain on a glittering professional career in front of 80,000 fans in Dublin, a homecoming on a scale no Irish fighter has ever known. Tickets vanished in half an hour. An entire stadium sold out in 30 minutes for one last look at their champion.
This is not just another title defence. It is a farewell.
A champion’s last stand
Taylor faces France’s Flora Pili in an undisputed super lightweight championship bout, the last fight before she retires from professional boxing. The stakes are obvious: every belt on the line, legacy on the line, and for Taylor, something even heavier — the chance to leave on her own terms, in her own city, in a stadium that usually roars for hurling and football, not right hands and ringwalks.
Croke Park has seen history before. On Saturday, it hosts another kind.
Taylor, long the standard-bearer for women’s boxing, steps into the ring as the hero on home turf, but Pili arrives with nothing to lose and everything to gain. Beat Taylor in Dublin, in her final act, and you write yourself into boxing folklore. That threat will hang in the air with every exchange.
When and where to watch
For those not lucky enough to find a ticket, the stage shifts from the stands to the screen.
The Taylor vs. Pili card takes place on Saturday, Sept. 5 at Croke Park in Dublin, Ireland.
- Coverage begins around 2 p.m. ET / 11 a.m. PT
- Main ringwalks are scheduled for 5:10 p.m. ET / 2:10 p.m. PT
The entire event streams live on DAZN. There is no pay-per-view surcharge, no extra fee for Taylor’s final bow. A standard DAZN subscription unlocks the full card.
Viewers can sign up to DAZN on an annual plan at $249.99 per year, or monthly at $24.99. There is also a Monthly Flexible Pass at $34.99, which can be cancelled at any time. Once subscribed, fans get the full Taylor vs. Pili fight card as part of their regular package.
A global goodbye from Dublin
From the first bell in the afternoon to the final ringwalk in the evening, Croke Park will feel like the centre of the boxing world. The sound will travel. So will the pictures.
A sold-out stadium. An undisputed champion. One last walk to the ring.
Katie Taylor’s story has always been bigger than belts. On Saturday, the world gets to watch how it ends.
