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Katie Taylor’s last fight will be an emotional farewell for a quietly defiant pioneer

“I won’t be like Tyson Fury, coming back again and again,” Katie Taylor told me with a little smile a few years ago as she explained how, when she finally retired, she would leave boxing for good. The moment is almost here because, on Saturday night, in front of 80,000 fans at a fevered Croke Park, Taylor will fight for the very last time. She will depart as a quietly defiant pioneer and an overwhelming force for good – both in Ireland and women’s boxing.

Katie Taylor’s final open workout shows a glimpse of her remarkable legacy

Katie Taylor’s public workout started with a standing ovation and ended with the Bray boxer lacing her glove on the hand of a 10-year-old girl. Legacy. Let there be no doubt, Taylor is holding the pen that writes the script of her final chapter this week.

’40 is the new 30, isn’t it?’: ageless Katie Taylor firing and ready for final fight

The lasts are piling up, the work all but done. Tuesday’s last press conference was followed 24 hours later by Katie Taylor’s last public workout. One last weigh-in, one last ring walk, and it’ll be time for her last fight.

Eddie Hearn: Katie Taylor’s Croke Park ring walk will be one of boxing’s greatest moments

THE sell never ends. The last of the tickets for Katie Taylor’s farewell fight at Croke Park was snapped up within 30 minutes.

Katie Taylor: ‘I was walking to some boxing gyms as a young girl being sniggered at and laughed at’

Fight week on Dublin’s northside. Katie Taylor walks into her last few days as a boxer the same way she hopes to walk out. Fists clenched, smile wide, the roars of a partisan crowd assailing her. Ready for the cavalcade of lasts that lie before her as the hours tick down to Croke Park on Saturday night.

Katie Taylor: ‘The most important thing is that I get my hand raised on Saturday night’

Strip away the romance of the Katie Taylor story, excise the Hollywood-style screenplay that Tinseltown will surely transfer to celluloid sooner rather than later, and there is one critical last act to be written in a career that comes to a close in Croke Park this Saturday.

‘Pump the jab’: A bluffer’s guide to talking about boxing before Katie Taylor’s final fight

It’s been a very long time since we saw live professional boxing on free-to-air TV in Ireland, but RTÉ 2 will be showing Katie Taylor’s final fight against unbeaten French fighter Flora Pili at Croke Park on Saturday night.

Katie Taylor: Celebrating the Incredible Story of a True Legend

Around 80,000 will be at Dublin's famous National Stadium on September 5 to say farewell to a boxing icon as she fights Flora Pili in her final bout

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Katie Taylor’s last fight will be an emotional farewell for a quietly defiant pioneer

Katie Taylor’s final open workout shows a glimpse of her remarkable legacy

’40 is the new 30, isn’t it?’: ageless Katie Taylor firing and ready for final fight

Eddie Hearn: Katie Taylor’s Croke Park ring walk will be one of boxing’s greatest moments

Katie Taylor: ‘I was walking to some boxing gyms as a young girl being sniggered at and laughed at’

Katie Taylor: ‘The most important thing is that I get my hand raised on Saturday night’

‘Pump the jab’: A bluffer’s guide to talking about boxing before Katie Taylor’s final fight

Katie Taylor: Celebrating the Incredible Story of a True Legend