Dave Allen is on Katie Taylor’s retirement show at Croke Park on September 5. Matchroom Boxing added him to a card that already has Taylor headlining against Flora Pili.
The show is expected to draw roughly 80,000 fans, and that figure gives the undercard real weight even before the final bout list is complete. For Allen, Molly McCann, Adam Olaniyan and Paddy Donovan, the announcement places them inside one of the biggest one-night boxing events scheduled in Dublin this year.
Katie Taylor at Croke Park
Taylor will headline against Flora Pili at Croke Park, turning her farewell fight into the main attraction on a bill built around one clear center. The September 5 date is already fixed, which gives the rest of the card a hard deadline as the show comes together.
The retirement-show label and the undercard announcement pull in different directions. One says the evening is a send-off; the other shows the lineup is still being assembled, one fight at a time.
Dave Allen Joins the Bill
Allen is the most direct undercard name in the announcement because he is one of the fighters now attached to the event without a bout detail yet. The same applies to McCann, Olaniyan and Donovan, who were all named for the show but not matched with opponents in the information released.
That leaves the practical question for anyone following the card: which specific bouts will Dave Allen, Molly McCann, Adam Olaniyan and Paddy Donovan contest on the undercard? For now, the answer is that they are part of the September 5 show, and the rest of the bill is still being filled in around Taylor’s farewell night at Croke Park.
