Katie Taylor’s Croke Park dream is again on ice.
The GAA has dominated out any probability of the Irish Icon preventing on the well-known stadium in 2025.
There was Croke Park noise with regard to the London 2012 gold medal winner since she turned over in 2016. The extent of that noise elevated and decreased in quantity at numerous occasions over a groundbreaking profession.
The dial was turned again up after the Bray boxer’s Amanda Serrano win in Texas late final yr with Eddie Hearn and Jake Paul each suggesting it as a potential venue for a trilogy conflict.
Matchroom’s Hearn, who has promoted all however one of many 38-year-old’s professional bouts, reiterated his need to ship a battle within the 82,000-capacity stadium for the two-weight undisputed world champion when chatting with Irish media on the launch of the Crocker-Donovan card final month.
Nevertheless, Croke Park Stadium director Peter McKenna claims he has had no contact with the promoter. McKenna suggests the window of alternative for 2025 and hints Matchroom’s Croke Park claims are usually not ‘real’.
“Eddie hasn’t been in contact with us. It flashes up every now and then however no, we haven’t been contacted,” stadium director Peter McKenna, exterior advised RTE Sport.
“The method appears to be megaphone diplomacy, throw all the things at it and one thing will occur in that sense.”
“Katie Taylor is an impressive athlete and I feel everybody could be very, very happy with what she’s achieved as an athlete, however to fill Croke Park with 80,000, you want an undercard, you want an entire razzmatazz to go along with it,” McKenna added.
“These issues can’t be carried out in a brief time period.
“The calendar, actually there’s not loads of area to say, ‘yeah, we may match it in on that weekend’. What time of the yr would it not be on? We have now Oasis and Robbie Williams [in August].
“Even getting an occasion administration plan collectively, getting the Metropolis Council to approve it and so forth, there’d be a good bit of labor in that.
“So I feel it’s a kite-flyer quite than real. I can’t see it occurring as a result of we haven’t heard about it, bar studying within the papers.”
