Katie Taylor has said she is ‘blown away’ by the support from Irish fans after her Croke Park fight World Title clash with Flora Pili was declared a sell-out.<\/p>\n
Organisers confirmed that Taylor will pull the curtain down on her boxing career in front of a capacity crowd of 82,000 after the September bout sold out moments after going on general sale.<\/p>\n
With 40,000 tickets already snapped up through a pre-sale, Friday’s general sale lasted just 30 minutes before supply was exhausted.<\/p>\n
“It is incredible,” said Taylor. “I woke up, because I’m actually in America now, and we\u2019re five hours behind here, and I saw my phone. I couldn\u2019t believe we are actually sold out.<\/p>\n
“I\u2019m blown away by it to be honest. I never could have dreamt this really. A packed Croke Park, it\u2019s going to be an incredible event. What a way to end my career.”<\/p>\n
Taylor’s promoted Eddie Hearn was always confident that demand would outstrip supply, but even her was taken aback by how quickly the event sold out.<\/p>\n
“This will be the greatest event in sporting history in Ireland,” said Hearn.<\/p>\n
“I know it’s often promoter talk that we could have ‘sold the place out twice’, but a huge portion of those tickets were so highly in-demand. Genuinely, Katie could have sold another 50 or 60,000.<\/p>\n
“It will be the greatest atmosphere of any boxing event I will have ever witnessed on September 5. Now Katie’s got to train hard and go out there to win this fight.”<\/p>\n
Taylor is seeking to become an undisputed champion for third time by defending her WBO, WBA, IBF, and Ring Magazine titles and re-claiming the recently vacated WBC title.<\/p>\n
The undefeated Pili is the mandatory challenger for the IBF light-welterweight title and the number one contender for the vacant WBC belt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Katie Taylor has said she is ‘blown away’ by the support from Irish fans after her Croke Park…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":637387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-637386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637386","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=637386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}