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2025-02-07 07:02:00
Taylor won Olympic gold for Ireland at London 2012 and turned professional in November 2016, winning her first world title at lightweight a year later in Cardiff.
She went on- to become undisputed champion at lightweight and light-welterweight, losing the latter titles to Chantelle Cameron in May 2023 before winning them back in a rematch in November 2023.
The Bray native has fought across the UK and USA in big stadium fights but a date at the famous 82,000-capacity stadium in her home country has remained elusive – something that does not seem likely to change this year.
“Katie Taylor is a magnificent athlete and I think everyone is very, very proud of what she’s achieved as an athlete, but to fill Croke Park with 80,000, you need an undercard, you need a whole razzmatazz to go with it,” McKenna added.
“Those things can’t be done in a short period of time.
“The calendar, really there’s not a lot of space to say, ‘yeah, we could fit it in on that weekend’. What time of the year would it be on? We have Oasis and Robbie Williams [in August].
“Even getting an event management plan together, getting the City Council to approve it and so on, there’d be a fair bit of work in that.
“So I think it’s a kite-flyer rather than genuine. I can’t see it happening because we haven’t heard about it, bar reading in the papers.”
