Over 40,000 tickets have been sold for Katie Taylor’s upcoming fight at Croke Park, according to Matchroom chief Eddie Hearn.<\/p>\n
Pre-sale tickets were released on Wednesday morning for Taylor\u2019s bout against Flora Pili on 5 September. The remaining tickets will go on sale this Friday.<\/p>\n
\u201cIncredible,\u201d Hearn said on social media. \u201cOver 40,000 sold today on pre-sale alone! Expecting a complete sell-out on general sale this Friday. What a night this is going to be. Ireland stand up.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lidl Plus users and local residents were among the groups given access to a pre-sale Ticketmaster link.<\/p>\n
Speaking at a press conference in Croke Park last week, Hearn expanded on the logistics of the show.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe will be fighting in the middle of the pitch. The Hill will be closed, because it will be standing. That will be used for TV production.<\/p>\n
\u201cAny major stadium fight, the ring is always in the middle of the pitch.\u201d<\/p>\n
It will still be a fight night.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt will be earlier than normal in terms of your TV shows, but you are not talking about an afternoon fight. I expect the ring walk to be about 9.00, 9.30pm. No later than 10.00pm.\u201d<\/p>\n
It will be the first time Croke Park has hosted a boxing event since Muhammad Ali’s victory over Al \u2018Blue\u2019 Lewis in 1972.<\/p>\n
Taylor recently went on a four-day promotional tour of Ireland, starting in Bray on Saturday and going on to Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway and Belfast. She also appeared on the pitch at half-time in last Saturday\u2019s Leinster final.<\/p>\n
This will be the Bray boxer\u2019s farewell. She revealed last week that she would have retired if the iconic venue had not been secured.<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t think there was much else to chase after other than Croke Park,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot just Croke Park, I also wanted a real test. A real challenge, a real fight. We met those two conditions so it is amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over 40,000 tickets have been sold for Katie Taylor’s upcoming fight at Croke Park, according to Matchroom chief…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":728171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-728170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=728170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/728171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}