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Paddy Doherty, who fought on the undercard of Muhammad Ali’s historic 1972 Croke Park bout against Al “Blue” Lewis—and won his own second-round stoppage—will be in the crowd for Katie Taylor’s emotional farewell fight. That 1972 event, Ali’s only time boxing in Ireland, drew just 18,000 fans; Taylor’s upcoming showdown promises to break records with an estimated 80,000 roaring fans. Doherty, honored when Taylor and her manager Brian Peters visited his Donegal home, calls her a true icon of Irish boxing and shares heartfelt advice for her final match: focus on strategy and let the referee handle the close exchanges. He also recalls the electrifying chaos of that Ali weigh-in, when fans swarmed the ring just to touch the legend.

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