{"id":614616,"date":"2026-09-04T20:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T20:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/614616\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T20:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T20:26:08","slug":"taylor-makes-weight-for-croke-park-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/614616\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor makes weight for Croke Park finale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Katie Taylor successfully made weight ahead of her upcoming undisputed title fight against Flora Pili at Croke Park, hitting the scales during the official weigh-in at Trinity College, Dublin.<\/p>\n<p>The Bray woman is bidding to become a three-time undisputed champion with the WBA, WBC, IBF and WBO super lightweight titles up for grabs.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor is the overwhelming favourite to sign off on a decorated career at a sold-out Croke Park with victory, though her French opponent is unbeaten in her dozen professional outings.<\/p>\n<p>The 40-year-old made weight for the final time, clocking 139.6lbs, marginally lighter than Pili at 139.9lbs.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\">Katie Taylor weighs in at 139.6lbs, while challenger Flora Pili clocks in at 139.9lbs for Saturday&#8217;s fight at Croke Park <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hq03SFrZYx\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/hq03SFrZYx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RT\u00c9 Sport (@RTEsport) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RTEsport\/status\/2095931438105317800\" rel=\"nofollow\">September 4, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m just so excited. I\u2019ve been saying all week how grateful I am for this opportunity,&#8221; Taylor said. &#8220;I\u2019m one day away from ending my career at my dream venue at Croke Park.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can\u2019t wait to step in there. I want to put in a fight worthy of everyone\u2019s support over these last few years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/boxing\/2026\/0903\/1590186-katie-taylors-croke-park-finale-all-you-need-to-know\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Saturday\u2019s undercard begins at 4.05pm, with the headline act, Taylor v Pili the ninth and final bout of the night<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That fight is expected to start just after 10pm.<\/p>\n<p>Watch Katie Taylor v Flora Pili in their undisputed World Super Lightweight title bout live on RT\u00c92 and RT\u00c9 Player on Saturday from 8pm, listen live on RT\u00c9 2fm or follow a live blog on RT\u00c9.ie\/sport and the RT\u00c9 News app<\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Katie Taylor successfully made weight ahead of her upcoming undisputed title fight against Flora Pili at Croke Park,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":614617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-614616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}