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.

Christian Cherci, manager to Flora Pili, Taylor’s final opponent, put it at Tuesday’s press conference that this fight won’t act as any meaningful filter to the Irishwoman’s wider career. 

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