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Katie Taylor’s Final Fight at Croke Park: A Farewell Night

Katie Taylor has chased this night for years. Not the belts. Not the money. Croke Park.

On Saturday, Sept. 5, the 2012 Olympic champion will finally walk out under the lights of Dublin’s great arena for the first – and last – time as a professional, facing Flora Pili in what she has confirmed will be the final fight of a remarkable career.

It is the homecoming she always wanted, and the goodbye she has chosen.

How to watch Taylor vs. Pili

There is no traditional TV broadcast for Taylor’s farewell. If you want to see it, you’ll need DAZN.

The fight streams live on DAZN, with several subscription options:

  • DAZN Standard:
    • $24.99 per month on a 12‑month contract, or
    • $249.99 for a full year.
  • DAZN Standard (flex option):
    • $34.99 per month without the annual commitment.
  • DAZN Ultimate:
    • $49.99 per month on a 12‑month contract, or
    • $449.99 per year.

DAZN Ultimate is the premium tier, offering at least 12 pay-per-view boxing events and more than 185 fights annually, with Taylor vs. Pili among the headline attractions on the schedule.

Start time and setting

  • Date: Saturday, Sept. 5
  • Venue: Croke Park, Dublin, Ireland
  • Main card start: 2 p.m. ET
  • Approximate main event ring walk: 5:30 p.m. ET

The undercard will set the tone from mid-afternoon Eastern Time, with the exact timing of Taylor’s ring walk dependent on how long the earlier fights last. By early evening, all eyes will be on one woman and one ring in Dublin.

Taylor’s last stand

Taylor enters the night with a professional record of 25-1, a ledger that only briefly wobbled when Chantelle Cameron handed her a first defeat in 2023. Taylor answered that setback the way great champions do: by coming straight back and beating Cameron to reclaim all the gold at super lightweight.

She did not stop there. In July 2025, she edged Amanda Serrano once again to complete a trilogy sweep in one of the defining rivalries of modern women’s boxing.

Those wins restored her position at the top of the sport. This final fight is about something else. Legacy. Closure. Place.

Croke Park has loomed over Taylor’s story for years, the great arena just out of reach as she fought in sold-out venues across the world. Now, at 38, she will finally step into a ring on the pitch where Irish sporting legends are made, carrying the weight of a nation’s affection and her own decision to walk away.

She has been honest about the emotional pull of retirement but just as clear about the danger of indulging it too early.

“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,” Taylor 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 balance – between sentiment and steel – has always defined her. The Bray Bomber built her career on discipline, tempo, and a refusal to be distracted by the noise around her. On Saturday, the noise will be louder than ever.

What’s at stake

For Flora Pili, this is the opportunity of a lifetime: a chance to spoil the script, silence Croke Park and write her own name into boxing history by upsetting one of the sport’s icons on her farewell night.

For Taylor, the belts and the statistics fade into the background. She has already won Olympic gold, unified divisions, headlined arenas, and helped drag women’s boxing into the mainstream. The numbers are there forever.

What remains is one last performance in front of her people, in the stadium she dreamed of, with nothing left to prove – only something left to feel.

When she walks out at Croke Park, the roar will say what the record books never can.

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