Croke Park’s Peter McKenna said he feared a repeat of the chaos that marred the Euro 2020 final at Wembley if there was any compromise on security for a Katie Taylor-Amanda Serrano fight.
The bout is now set to take place at the 9,000 capacity 3Arena on May 20 instead of GAA headquarters after promoter Eddie Hearn of Matchroom said that “the cost of hire and everything involved in the event is three times higher nearly than staging it in Wembley Stadium”.
However, Croke Park stadium director McKenna said that “the costs quoted are far less than we’d normally charge because we would have loved to have had Katie Taylor” and he suggested that Hearn and Matchroom got “a little bit of the jitters” after fearing that the fight wouldn’t clear in excess of 80,000 tickets to fill Croke Park.
