Katie Taylor’s Last Walk: A Sold-Out Farewell at Croke Park
Katie Taylor has spent a career carrying Irish boxing on her shoulders. On Saturday night in Dublin, she walks to the ring one last time.
The undisputed super lightweight champion will defend her titles against France’s Flora Pili at Croke Park, a stage worthy of a career that helped redefine the sport. More than 80,000 tickets vanished in half an hour. An entire stadium, gone in 30 minutes, just to see the final chapter.
This is not just another defence. It is the end of a professional journey. One more ringwalk. One more roar.
A farewell on home soil
For years, Taylor has fought under bright lights in packed arenas from London to New York, but Croke Park is different. This is home. This is the arena Irish fighters have dreamed of filling, and she does it on the night she says goodbye.
Across the ring, Pili arrives with little of the fanfare, but with the chance of a lifetime. She steps into a cauldron: 80,000 voices, most of them for Taylor, all of them aware they are watching history. To silence that crowd, she will have to produce the performance of her life.
The fight crowns an undisputed champion at super lightweight and closes the book on one of the most influential careers in women’s boxing. The stakes are sporting, emotional, and historic all at once.
When and where
Taylor and Pili meet on Saturday, Sept. 5, at Croke Park in Dublin, Ireland.
Coverage starts at 2 p.m. ET / 11 a.m. PT, with the main ringwalks scheduled for 5:10 p.m. ET / 2:10 p.m. PT. By then, the sun will be dropping over Dublin, the stadium lights will bite, and Taylor will make the last competitive walk of her life.
How to watch
The entire Taylor vs. Pili card streams live on DAZN.
There is no pay-per-view surcharge. The fight sits inside a standard DAZN subscription, whether on an annual plan ($249.99 per year or $24.99 per month) or the Monthly Flexible Pass at $34.99, which can be cancelled at any time.
No extra codes. No one-off fee. Just a subscription and a screen.
A global audience for a local hero
The bout will beam out from Dublin to living rooms and phones around the world, a global farewell for a fighter who spent years pushing women’s boxing into the mainstream. The crowd in Croke Park will supply the soundtrack; DAZN will carry it to anyone who wants to see how it ends.
Taylor’s career has always felt bigger than the belts she collected. On Saturday, under the lights of a packed Croke Park, we find out how her story closes—and whether Flora Pili is there simply to witness it, or to tear up the script.
