Katie Taylor

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Katie Taylor Croke Park homecoming fight 'unlikely to happen' (Dublin Live)

The Bray native beat Serrano on a points decision to retain her lightweight belts last May and is expected to face the Puerto Rican again this year. The GAA ...

The Government have now stepped in to help ensure the fight takes place on Irish soil. Her victorious bout against Serrano last year became the first ever women’s fight to headline Madison Square Garden. Taylor then went on to defend her title by beating Karen Elizabeth Carabajal in London in October. [Dublin Live Newsletter](https://www.dublinlive.ie/news/dublin-news/sign-up-newsletter-today-17954403) to get all the latest Dublin news straight to your inbox. [Bray](https://www.dublinlive.ie/all-about/bray) native beat Serrano on a points decision to retain her lightweight belts last May and is expected to face the Puerto Rican again this year. [Croke Park](https://www.dublinlive.ie/all-about/croke-park), according to reports.

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Katie Taylor- Amanda Serrano world title rematch at Croke Park ... (The Irish News)

The Irish News understands that the cost of hosting the eagerly-awaited rumble for the undisputed lightweight title at GAA Headquarters, or at any Dublin ...

With Dublin shut down, fight fans have become accustomed to heading north in large numbers for bills in Belfast. Undisputed women’s lightweight champion Taylor has never fought on home soil as a professional and DAZN boss Hearn insisted late last year that his focus was “a million per cent on going to Croke Park”. One man died and two were injured in the gangland-style hit.

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Amanda Serrano: Only Way I'm Moving Up Again Is For Katie Taylor ... (BoxingScene.com)

With a win on Saturday, there is only one fight left that will get the Puerto Rican star to abandon the featherweight division—a lucrative rematch with ...

Serrano was fighting at her walkaround win in her loss to Taylor and prior ten-round shutout win over the naturally bigger Miriam Gutierrez in their December 2021 non-title fight. The bulk of Serrano’s career has come at featherweight, where she turned pro in 2009 and where she has enjoyed three separate title reigns. The fight also came with the interim WBC title, which Serrano upgraded to the full crown in 2021 when Jelena Mrdjenovich was unavailable for their ordered title consolidation bout. “God willing all goes well, the only fight I’m going up in weight for after this is the rematch with Katie Taylor,” Serrano told BoxingScene.com. The only way I’m moving up again is for the Katie Taylor rematch.” Beyond that, the plan is clear for Serrano—to not only become the undisputed featherweight champion but defend that crown through the rest of her storied career.

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Will we see Katie Taylor's fight at Croke Park? (Newstalk)

Kieran Cunningham, chief sports writer at Irish Daily Star was tweeting recently about some potential roadblocks around Katie Taylor's long-mooted homecomi.

The presumption had been that Croke Park was the likely destination, but we also heard from her promoter Eddie Hearn talking about the proposed May date. Kieran Cunningham, chief sports writer at Irish Daily Star was tweeting recently about some potential roadblocks around Katie Taylor’s long-mooted homecoming fight.

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