Katie Taylor at Croke Park

Watching women box the heads off each other is a family day out in your mind?? Strange idea. That McGregor is wading in with cash should tell us something. On the whole, boxing has a pretty dodgy reputation to put it mildly.

Long standing ties to gangland figures be it in the states, here, the UK. About as corrupt a sport going bar the aul cycling

Boxing and the mob by Jeffrey Sussman is a good aul read if you ever come across it

What's McGregor got to do with it? Providing security in case a few bad boys show up? Isn't that essentially why she hasn't boxed here before, gangsters?

McGregor will supply the ‘Secooorety yeah !?’

my guess is it won’t happen in Croker .

its simply too big a venue for the interest which she and the sport generates.

the cost will be too significant Vs the gate receipts ….

yer man Eddie Hearn made a bôllocks of this fight. Dublin, the same night as Heineken Cup Final…rugby lads announced that on May 19th last. Taylor just announced this a few days back.

very odd announcing this so close to the date but seemingly no idea where it’s to be held.

Not sure, but that was the point if I remember rightly….

are camp Taylor going to trade down from Croker to the Aviva to the Point / 3 Arena ?

A lot of people who watched her in the Olympics haven't watched any of her professional fights. Bar maybe a couple that were on RTE early in her professional career.

When I think on Taylor, two things come to mind. First the hype surrounding the Olympics/ homecoming and second the gangland shoot up of her father's boxing gym, bullets sprayed around and a fella left dead. Her father who was her erstwhile trainer for the Olympics.

Great image for the young wans alright.

I think that says more about your prejudices than her tbh.

It's absolutely delusional thinking that this would fill croke park. Not a chance.i don't think she sold out her first homecoming fight.

There simply isn't the appetite here for pro boxing. This will be a night fight so no young girls and families. It will be €80 a head minimum and on top of accommodation costs, be very expensive to attend from outside Dublin.

Add in the boxing crowd and the security needed, means that it will be the 3 arena and she'll do well to fill that tbh.