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Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn has said a homecoming combat for Katie Taylor astatine Croke Park is simply a "must".
Undisputed satellite champion Taylor, 36, stretched her unbeaten grounds to 22 bouts with triumph implicit Karen Elizabeth Carabajal connected Saturday.
Hearn suggested a rematch with Amanda Serrano would beryllium fitting for Croke Park aft their historical bout successful April.
"[It's] precise overmuch connected the radar and I truly deliberation it indispensable beryllium next, we indispensable bring her to Ireland," said Hearn.
Hearn added it "wouldn't bash her vocation justice" if Bray combatant Taylor did not person a homecoming combat successful Ireland aft dominating the lightweight part since turning nonrecreational successful 2016.
Hearn believes a rematch with Puerto Rican boxer Serrano is the close prime aft their historical combat was the archetypal women's bout to header and merchantability retired New York's Madison Square Garden successful April.
"The archetypal 1 sold retired Madison Square Garden and was 1 of the champion fights we person ever seen," Hearn told BBC Radio Ulster's Sportsound Extra Time.
"I deliberation a nighttime of boxing similar that astatine Croke Park would capable the spot truly rapidly and would besides bring done immoderate emerging Irish talent.
"For years and years, nary substance wherever I person been, each Irish antheral and pistillate has stopped maine and said, 'when are you going to bring Katie Taylor to Ireland?'.
"It conscionable wouldn't bash her vocation justness if we didn't. Croke Park is simply a immense stadium but she is an icon of Irish sport.
"I deliberation we tin springiness Irish athletics a time oregon nighttime they volition never, ever forget."
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Hearn added that talks had taken spot with the GAA astir a imaginable bout astatine Croke Park successful the past but Serrano "wasn't ready".
"I deliberation September 15 oregon 17 this twelvemonth was the day we were looking astatine doing it," helium said.
"Coming disconnected the backmost of 30 April astatine Madison Square Garden, we wanted to effort and crook it astir rather rapidly and get it done.
"It wasn't acceptable - the combat - due to the fact that Serrano wasn't acceptable for that date, but present we determination successful 2023 we person benignant of got - not a wide prime but surely a prime of spring/summer.
"We are going to commencement up those conversations again. They were precise affirmative and everyone was down the lawsuit and we look guardant to revisiting that.
"A batch of the conversations and enactment was already done. There is inactive a batch of enactment to do, but surely getting done the process of getting things successful order, the effect was precise positive."
Croke Park has a seated capableness of 82,000When asked if October 2023 would beryllium a apt day fixed gaelic shot and hurling finals instrumentality spot passim the summertime astatine the Dublin stadium, Hearn said "we would decidedly similar sooner than that".
The All-Ireland elder shot last is acceptable to instrumentality spot connected 30 July, 7 days aft the hurling final.
"This would beryllium Katie Taylor's adjacent fight. We are conscionable going into November present truthful really, we privation arsenic aboriginal successful the summertime arsenic possible," helium said, earlier adding helium wanted to marque it accessible for fans successful the existent outgo of surviving crisis.
"Now, the bully aged Irish upwind needs to clasp up for america and we volition springiness it each chance.
"This summertime slot successful 2023 is, I'm not saying the lone chance, but astir apt our best-ever accidental to marque this hap and we privation to marque definite we instrumentality it for some hands."
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