Katie Taylor, Ireland's super-lightweight world champion and 2012 Olympic gold medallist, is set to fight her final professional bout on Saturday before a crowd of 80,000 at Dublin's Croke Park (Ireland's largest and most storied sporting stadium), with tickets selling out in just 17 minutes when they went on sale in June. Taylor, who turns 40 this year, will face Flora Pili, an unbeaten French champion with a perfect 12-0 professional record, in a farewell event that also features live music and free-to-air national television coverage. In her hometown of Bray, County Wicklow, residents describe the night as the end of a trailblazing era — Taylor famously had to disguise herself as a boy to compete when women were banned from boxing in Ireland, and later helped overturn that ban and lobbied successfully to have women's boxing included in the Olympic Games.