Katie Taylor - The Hype

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It’s fascinating to watch

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They do be boxing the diddies off each other Joe .

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Perfect outcome for the Twitter lads here. Can give out about not being able to go to something they hadn’t a notion of going to in the first place

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Butty Sugrue the promoter lost his bollox on that fight. Think the attendance was 11k.

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I think the Pikey conference which was arranged to coincide with the fight forced the decision to cancel it and not bad ticket sales. Ordinary boxing fans were being warned not to go.

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My old man was at it - lot of people got in without tickets

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Katie Taylor - The Hyde.

Fleetingly I mis-read the thread title with the shocking feeling that she was defending her world title in the Hyde. The blood pressure has now dropped.

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Mine too. He was one of the unfortunates who paid and was still giving out 30 years later

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Kevin needs to take his dumb fucking well boxed head out of his arse

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James too

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College football brings a massive entourage from abroad with it.

Also aren’t the GAA limited by how many non GAA events they can hold in the year? Why would they offer it at a reduced rate when I’m sure they’ll easily sell those dates at full value.

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“Oireland for de Oirish, refugees out, house da HOMELISS and da guverrment should subsidise Eddie Hearn with public money.”

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400k at Croke Park v 250k at Wembley for stadium rental is only a couple of euro a ticket difference.

If anybody was to make a concession (which I don’t see why they would) it should be whatever private security company is to be used.

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It’s a pity it’s not on in croke park in fairness. It could have been a huge, unique event for women’s sport, thousands of young girls could have gone to it with their dad’s/mams. Hardly totally the gaa’s fault or anything like it but they could have all made it work and sold it out.

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Listen to what Peter McKenna says and you’ll see it’s not being ruled out for September.

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That’s 250,000£ which is closer again.

The long and the short of it is Hearn is worried it won’t make a profit.

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Croke Park is fairly dated at this stage compared with more modern stadia. Hardly much benefit in showing it off to the world

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Women’s professional boxing is a lesser draw than women’s amateur boxing in this country. Part of the whole thing with Katie Taylor in 2012 was she was representing Ireland at the Olympics. In London. That’s over a decade ago now. Kellie Harrington has stolen her thunder to a large extent as well.

Taylor’s professional career has been of only niche interest among the Irish sporting public, few people have seen any of her fights and Amanda Serrano is not a known name in Ireland. Men will not go to watch a women’s professional boxing event in numbers in Ireland. When Taylor appeared at the national amateur finals in 2013 she got an extremely lukewarm reception, almost as if the men in the audience resented her. Relying on women and girls to pay big bucks to attend a professional boxing event in the heart of the north inner city when there has been no professional boxing event in Dublin for years because of the gangland feud is not a reliable sell.

Irish people will turn up to watch Taylor in numbers if it’s in Madison Square Garden or Boston or Sydney or an Olympics in London as it becomes a gathering event for Irish emigrants. Not so much in Dublin. They’d actually be better off staging it in Wembley as a bigger Irish crowd would turn up there.

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