{"id":741761,"date":"2026-06-17T06:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T06:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/741761\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T06:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T06:15:09","slug":"katie-taylor-blown-away-by-fan-reaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/741761\/","title":{"rendered":"Katie Taylor &#8216;Blown Away&#8217; By Fan Reaction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irish-boxing.com\/?s=Katie+Taylor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Katie Taylor<\/a> believes the final chapter of her storied boxing career has been made all the more dramatic by the fact that Croke Park will be sold out on September 5.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The trailblazing boxing star says farewell to the sport with an Undisputed homecoming World title clash against Flora Pilli at GAA headquarters at the tail end of the summer \u2013 and the Irish public will come out in force to wave goodbye.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A capacity crowd of over 82,000 will pack into the venue for what will be the Irish legend\u2019s final fight. The Olympic gold medal winner and the two-weight undisputed world champion is backing the fans to add to the\u00a0occasion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA packed Croke Park, it\u2019s going to be an incredible event. What a way to end my career,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Bray native also said she was \u2018blown away\u2019 by how quick the event sold out.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>An incredible 40,000 snapped up pre-sale tickets in record time on Wednesday\u00a0and the remainder sold out in less than 30 minutes of general sale going live.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is incredible,\u201d added Taylor<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI woke up, because I\u2019m actually in America now, and we\u2019re five hours behind here, and I saw my phone. I couldn\u2019t believe we\u00a0are\u00a0actually sold out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m blown away by it to be honest. I never could have dreamt this, really.\u00a0 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Katie Taylor believes the final chapter of her storied boxing career has been made all the more dramatic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":741762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,241906,8200,85],"class_list":["post-741761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-croke-park","tag-katie-taylor","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741761","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=741761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/741762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}