{"id":1099,"date":"2026-09-05T21:44:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T21:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/05\/katie-taylor-retires-as-undisputed-champion-after-croke-park-victory\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T21:44:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T21:44:00","slug":"katie-taylor-retires-as-undisputed-champion-after-croke-park-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/05\/katie-taylor-retires-as-undisputed-champion-after-croke-park-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Katie Taylor Retires as Undisputed Champion After Croke Park Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Katie Taylor brought her illustrious boxing career to a close on Saturday with an emotional farewell at Dublin&#8217;s Croke Park, where she dominated Flora Pili to secure a unanimous decision victory.<\/p>\n<p>The 40-year-old Irish icon claimed the vacant WBC super-lightweight belt, cementing her status as a three-time undisputed world champion before a record crowd of 84,000 spectators. Widely regarded as the greatest female boxer in history, Taylor retires as an Olympic gold medalist and a pivotal figure who transformed the landscape for women in the sport.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor concludes her professional journey with a record of 26 wins and one defeat. Her only loss came against Chantelle Cameron in May 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katie Taylor ends her career with a unanimous win over Flora Pili at Croke Park, capturing the WBC super-lightweight title in front of 84,000 fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[946,1735,318,947,627,2292],"class_list":["post-1099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-boxing","tag-croke-park","tag-football","tag-katie-taylor","tag-sports","tag-wbc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}