Katie Taylor’s Last Walk: A Farewell at Croke Park
Katie Taylor has spent a career chasing history. On Saturday night in Dublin, she steps into the one arena that always felt like destiny: Croke Park. One last ring walk. One last opponent. One last chance to close the book on her own terms against Flora Pili.
This is the final fight of Taylor’s professional career, staged in the stadium that has loomed over her story for years. The 2012 Olympic champion, the undisputed trailblazer of women’s boxing, finally gets her night on Ireland’s grandest sporting stage.
How to watch Taylor vs. Pili
There’s no traditional national TV broadcast for this one. If you want to see Taylor’s farewell, you’ll need DAZN.
The fight streams live on DAZN, with several subscription options on the table. A DAZN Standard plan runs at $24.99 per month on a 12‑month contract or $249.99 for the year. For those who prefer not to lock in long term, there’s a flex option at $34.99 per month.
At the top end sits DAZN Ultimate, the premium tier. That package costs $49.99 per month on a 12‑month deal or $449.99 annually and includes a minimum of 12 PPV boxing events and more than 185 fights per year. For a night like this, it becomes less a purchase and more a ticket to a sporting farewell.
Start time, venue, and main event schedule
The stage could hardly be bigger. Croke Park, Dublin. A cathedral of Irish sport, now turning itself over to one of the country’s most decorated athletes.
- Date: Saturday, Sept. 5
- Main card start time: 2 p.m. ET
- Approximate main event time: 5:30 p.m. ET
- Location: Croke Park, Dublin, Ireland
The main card gets underway at 2 p.m. ET, with Taylor and Pili expected to ringwalk at around 5:30 p.m. ET. As always, that time leans on the length and drama of the undercard.
Taylor’s last stand
Taylor arrives at this moment with a record of 25-1 and a legacy already carved into the sport. Her lone professional defeat came in 2023 against Chantelle Cameron, a setback that might have broken lesser fighters. Taylor answered in the only way she knows: she came back and beat Cameron to reclaim every belt at super lightweight.
That win restored her status as the division’s ruler. Her most recent outing, a July 2025 victory over Amanda Serrano, completed a trilogy sweep that will live in boxing folklore. Three fights. Three epics. All shaded by Taylor’s will and precision.
Now comes the emotional coda. Fighting at Croke Park is not just another date on the calendar; it is the realization of a dream she has carried since long before world titles and sold‑out arenas.
Taylor has been honest about the tightrope she walks this week. The temptation to reflect is strong, the pull of nostalgia everywhere she turns, yet the danger of the sport demands clarity.
“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 is Taylor in a sentence: emotion acknowledged, never indulged. Sentiment can wait until the final bell.
What’s at stake against Flora Pili
For Flora Pili, this is the chance of a lifetime: the role of final opponent in a legend’s story and the opportunity to wreck the script in front of a partisan crowd. For Taylor, it is something different entirely.
She isn’t chasing validation anymore. She already owns Olympic gold, undisputed status, and a career that dragged women’s boxing into the mainstream. What she seeks now is closure — one last vintage performance, as she put it, to sign off in the way champions crave.
Croke Park will be loud, emotional, and utterly unforgiving. The ring, as always, will be honest. Taylor has one more job to do. How she finishes it will echo far beyond Dublin.
