Katie Taylor's Last Fight: A Farewell at Croke Park

Katie Taylor’s long goodbye will play out on the biggest stage her country can offer.

The Irish icon, a 2012 Olympic gold medalist and one of the defining fighters of her era, will close the curtain on her professional career at Croke Park, finally fulfilling a dream she has chased for years. Across the ring on Saturday stands Flora Pili, the final opponent in a journey that has dragged women’s boxing into the mainstream and kept it there.

This isn’t just another main event. It’s a farewell.

How to watch Taylor vs. Pili

There is no traditional TV broadcast for Taylor’s last stand. The entire card streams live on DAZN.

Fans will need a DAZN subscription to watch:

• 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 without the annual commitment.
• DAZN Ultimate: $49.99 per month on a 12‑month deal, or $449.99 annually.

DAZN Ultimate is the platform’s premium tier, built for heavy fight consumers. It includes a minimum of 12 pay‑per‑view boxing events and more than 185 fights per year, with Taylor’s Croke Park send‑off among the headline attractions on the calendar.

Taylor vs. Pili: Date, start time, venue

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

The main card is scheduled to begin at 2 p.m. ET, with the timing of Taylor’s ring walk dependent on how long the undercard bouts run. The expectation is that the main event will begin around 5:30 p.m. ET, but any quick finishes earlier in the night could nudge that forward.

A champion’s last stand

Taylor enters her final fight with a 25-1 professional record, a résumé lined with belts and defining nights. Her lone defeat came in 2023, when Chantelle Cameron handed her a first professional loss and raised real questions about whether the great run had finally met its limit.

Taylor’s response was as ruthless as it was revealing. She beat Cameron in their rematch to reclaim all the super lightweight gold and reassert herself at the top of the division. Then came Amanda Serrano again, the rival who helped elevate Taylor’s status on a global scale. Taylor edged Serrano in July 2025 to complete a trilogy sweep, shutting the door on one of the sport’s fiercest rivalries on her own terms.

Now the story returns home.

Croke Park has always loomed over Taylor’s career as the one box left unchecked. She has sold out arenas, headlined historic nights, unified divisions. But the national stadium remained the dream venue that never quite materialized—until this weekend.

Taylor has admitted the occasion carries a heavy emotional weight, yet she has been careful to keep sentiment from creeping into her preparation.

“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 this week. “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.”

The message is clear: nostalgia can wait. One more performance comes first.

What’s at stake

For Pili, this is the opportunity of a lifetime: a chance to spoil a national celebration and etch her name into boxing history as the fighter who beat Katie Taylor in her final appearance.

For Taylor, the stakes are different. The titles, the numbers, the pound‑for‑pound debates—she has already lived through all of that. Saturday is about something more simple and more raw: ending a storied career with a final, vintage display in front of her own people, in the stadium she has wanted from the start.

When the lights go up over Croke Park and Taylor makes that walk, it won’t just be another ring entrance. It will be the last one.