{"id":758820,"date":"2026-09-03T18:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T18:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/758820\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T18:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T18:00:10","slug":"katie-taylor-vs-flora-pili-paddy-donovan-wont-underestimate-tyrone-mckenna-in-croke-park-undercard-bout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/758820\/","title":{"rendered":"Katie Taylor vs Flora Pili: Paddy Donovan won&#8217;t &#8216;underestimate&#8217; Tyrone McKenna in Croke Park undercard bout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chief support on Saturday is a heavyweight contest between Dave Allen [27-9-2] and Thomas Carty [11-1].<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Doncaster&#8217;s Allen admits his ambitions of fighting for top honours are over following May&#8217;s defeat by newly-crowned IBF heavyweight champion Filip Hrgovic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, he has bounced back with a pair of routine wins and feels he remains a &#8220;proper handful&#8221; at his level.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;After the Hrgovic fight, all of the feeling for boxing left me,&#8221; the 34-year-old revealed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m not trying to resurrect any run for titles, I&#8217;m just here to fight but if you&#8217;re not very good, I&#8217;ll flatten you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Carty once had aspirations to play Gaelic football for Dublin at Croke Park, but on Saturday he will realise something of a dream when boxing at the home of the Gaelic Athletic Association.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His sole defeat came at Madison Square Garden in March 2025 when suffering an ACL injury against Dajuan Calloway, but the 30-year-old southpaw feels he is &#8220;probably better now than what I was before&#8221; the injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Another Dubliner, Emmet Brennan, will make the 500-metre journey from his house to Croke Park to face fellow unbeaten super-middleweight Taylor Bevan with added incentive of double pay by Brian Peters, who represents Bevan, should he prevail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chief support on Saturday is a heavyweight contest between Dave Allen [27-9-2] and Thomas Carty [11-1]. Doncaster&#8217;s Allen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":758821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-758820","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\/758820","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=758820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/758821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}