Katie Taylor has chased this night for years. Not the belts. Not the records. Croke Park.
On Saturday, the Irish icon finally steps through the ropes at the Dublin cathedral of sport, facing Flora Pili in what she has confirmed will be the final fight of her professional career. One last ring walk. One last roar.
And then it’s over.
How to watch Taylor vs. Pili
There’s no traditional TV broadcast for this one. If you want to see Taylor’s farewell in real time, you’ll need DAZN.
- Live stream: DAZN
- DAZN Standard: $24.99 per month on a 12‑month contract, or $249.99 for the year
- DAZN Standard flex option: $34.99 per month with no annual commitment
- DAZN Ultimate: $49.99 per month on a 12‑month contract, or $449.99 per year
DAZN Ultimate is the premium tier, built for heavy boxing consumers. It includes at least 12 pay‑per‑view boxing events and more than 185 fights a year, with Taylor–Pili among the standout attractions on the calendar.
Start time and setting
- Date: Saturday, Sept. 5
- Venue: Croke Park, Dublin, Ireland
- Main card start: 2 p.m. ET
- Main event (approx.): 5:30 p.m. ET
The main event time will slide a little if the undercard runs long, but by late afternoon on the East Coast, Taylor should be making that long, emotional walk under the Croke Park lights.
A champion at the end of the road
Taylor arrives at this moment with a record that already belongs to history.
The 2012 Olympic gold medalist turned professional trailblazer is 25-1, her lone defeat coming in 2023 against Chantelle Cameron. That loss, in Dublin, cut deep. Taylor answered it the way the great ones do: by coming straight back and beating Cameron to reclaim all the super lightweight hardware.
She didn’t stop there. In July 2025, she edged Amanda Serrano again, closing out a ferocious trilogy with a sweep that underlined her dominance in one of the defining rivalries of modern women’s boxing.
Now comes the fight she always wanted in the arena she always dreamed of. Croke Park has staged some of the biggest nights in Irish sport; on Saturday, it turns itself over to one fighter’s farewell.
Taylor has been open about the emotional pull of this week, but she has kept a fighter’s edge about the job in front of her.
“I don’t want to reflect too much on it because I have a job to do. It’s too dangerous of a sport to have your body in the ring and your heart out of it thinking of retirement,” she said. “I have got a job to do, I’m focused on the job, but I have allowed myself to think about it over the last few months.”
That tension — between reflection and ruthlessness — will define her final ring entrance. The crowd will want nostalgia. Taylor will want another vintage performance.
What’s at stake on Saturday
For Pili, this is the chance of a lifetime: to share a ring with a generational figure and try to spoil the script in front of a partisan crowd. For Taylor, it is about control — of the ending, of the narrative, of the last image the world sees of her as an active fighter.
She has already secured her legacy: Olympic champion, multi-weight world champion, a driving force in pushing women’s boxing into the mainstream. The belts are in the bank. The history books are written.
What remains is one more night, one more opponent, one more walk out of the tunnel and into the noise at Croke Park.
Does the final chapter end with her arm raised, or with the sport reminding her, one last time, how unforgiving it can be?
