{"id":50739,"date":"2025-08-07T16:45:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T16:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/50739\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T16:45:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T16:45:10","slug":"eddie-hearn-only-sees-one-way-to-convince-katie-taylor-to-fight-one-last-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/50739\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Hearn only sees one way to convince Katie Taylor to fight one last time"},"content":{"rendered":"

LONDON, England \u2014 Eddie Hearn says that Katie Taylor<\/a> might have had her last fight, unless he can deliver an unprecedented farewell night at Croke Park, Dublin.<\/p>\n

Taylor, 39, is considered one of the greatest fighters of all time having won five world amateur titles and an Olympic gold medal before becoming undisputed at two different weights as a professional.<\/p>\n

Most recently, she produced one of the best performances of her career to beat Amanda Serrano at a sold-out Madison Square Garden<\/a> on July 11 in another huge night for women\u2019s boxing. The victory took her record to 3-0 against the Puerto Rican multi-weight champion.<\/p>\n

Taylor’s resume reads like a who\u2019s who of her era and Hearn, who has been her promoter for the entirety of her career, says there are few viable challengers left. In fact, the Matchroom boss says there is every chance that the Bray icon might never box again. However, there is one box still left unchecked.<\/p>\n

Fighting outdoors at Croke Park, Ireland\u2019s largest stadium, has been floated but it has never quite materialised. Taylor did box twice in Dublin, both at 3Arena, but she is yet to head outdoors.<\/p>\n

Now Hearn says that finally securing the fight at Croke Park, in front of around 60,000, would be the perfect way for Taylor to “bow out.”<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter the Serrano fight it was the first time I\u2019ve ever heard Katie say, ‘If I fight again,’ rather than when,\u201d Hearn told The Ring<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that bowing at the right time is so important. I just think that last fight would be an amazing way to bow out. <\/p>\n

\u201cBut there has been some conversations and you\u2019ve seen the sports minister in Ireland saying they should get behind Katie Taylor at Croke Park. It\u2019s still probably the only thing that may get her back in the ring.<\/p>\n

\u201cSelling out Madison Square Garden in front of a huge audience on Netflix and winning a trilogy is a great way to bow out, but so is having your last fight at Croke Park. It could be one of the only ways we see her in the ring again.\u201d<\/p>\n

When asked about the sort of opponent which might fit the bill for a fight of that magnitude, Hearn conceded that it\u2019s not an easy question to answer.<\/p>\n

\u201cChantelle Cameron<\/a> is a great fight but she doesn\u2019t really have the profile necessarily,\u201d he said. \u201cObviously you can\u2019t do Serrano four but there are some other fights out there.
\u201cMaybe Caroline Dubois<\/a>. I don\u2019t mean to be disrespectful, but they don\u2019t necessarily have the profile for it. In that instance at Croke Park it\u2019s about Katie Taylor but at the same time Caroline Dubois, Chantelle Cameron and Terri Harper are all in the same boat really.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe haven\u2019t even looked at opponents yet and she may not fight again, but we will give her a good rest and see what happens later in the year.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhoever it is against, I do think with her profile she has a chance of selling that place out. The occasion would just be incredible.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON, England \u2014 Eddie Hearn says that Katie Taylor might have had her last fight, unless he can…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6842,6836,6841,6840,6834,6102,6837,6838,6839,6835,6588,6847,6846,6830,6828,6829,6844,6831,6827,6848,6843,101,6845,6826,6833,56,54,55,6832],"class_list":["post-50739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-community","tag-boxing-fights","tag-boxing-history","tag-boxing-interviews","tag-boxing-magazine","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxing-photos","tag-boxing-rankings","tag-boxing-schedule","tag-boxing-videos","tag-boxing-results","tag-disqualification","tag-draw","tag-fight","tag-fighter","tag-fighter-news","tag-knockout","tag-latest-boxing-matches","tag-ring","tag-ring-magazine","tag-split-decision","tag-sports","tag-technical-knockout","tag-the-ring","tag-top-fighters","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-upcoming-boxing-matches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}