Ranking Katie Taylor's Most Likely Next (And Final) Opponent
May 29, 2026

Picture it. Croke Park. Thousands of Irish voices compressed into one sound — not a roar exactly, more like a frequency, something you feel in the sternum before you hear it with your ears. The Hill packed to its rafters. The floodlights cutting through a Dublin summer evening. And somewhere in the middle of all of it, Katie Taylor walking to a ring for the last time.

Eddie Hearn is working every angle simultaneously — London, Dublin, the Big Apple, wherever the next call takes him — because this is the promotional deal of a generation, and everyone in the sport knows it. A farewell fight at this venue, on this scale, for this fighter. Get it right, and it lives forever. Get it wrong, and no one forgives you.

The legendary KT hasn't fought since narrowly outpointing long-term rival Amanda Serrano last July, a result that caught online betting sites off guard. The Bovada boxing odds on fight night listed Taylor as the clear 2.70 underdog, even though she had already beaten her Puerto Rican opponent twice before. Once again, she would secure the upset win, a third over Serrano, in a mightily close fight that could have gone either way.

Fast forward 11 months, and Taylor is now just weeks away from turning 40. She has confirmed that her next fight will be her last, but which names are thought to be in the running to be her final opponent? Let's take a look.

Amanda Serrano IV

Three fights. Three wars. No verdict that either camp has ever fully accepted.

The April 2022 Madison Square Garden bout was a landmark moment for women's boxing — a genuine pay-per-view blockbuster that proved women's boxing could carry a main event on its own terms. Taylor edged a split decision that night, setting the tone for the trilogy that would ultimately follow.

Serrano pushed KT to the edge of defeat repeatedly, in front of the sport's largest audiences. The pair's rematch stole the show on the undercard of the Jake Paul vs Mike Tyson Netflix blockbuster, with the two rivals going to war only for Taylor to once again emerge with the narrowest of victories. Last July, she would repeat the feat. Three bouts, three narrow wins, one rivalry that still feels somewhat unfinished.

Reports are already circulating that a fourth meeting is under serious discussion, and the commercial logic is overwhelming. A quadrilogy, Croke Park, thousands of Irish fans, and the chance to finally deliver a verdict that women's boxing has been waiting years to receive — Hearn doesn't need to be convinced. This fight sells itself in any time zone.

Can any fighter make a more compelling case for a farewell showdown than the woman who has taken Taylor to the absolute limit three times already? The answer, commercially and narratively, is no. Serrano is the fight the sport deserves.

Chantelle Cameron III

This one is personal. May 2023. Dublin.  Taylor's first professional defeat, absorbed on home soil, in front of the Irish public who had never once seen her lose. Chantelle Cameron was magnificent that night — controlled, physical, utterly composed, where Taylor looked uncertain and overextended.

The majority decision was Cameron's. So was the undisputed super lightweight championship. The shock rippled through Irish sport in a way that a narrow split decision rematch — Taylor edging it, Cameron's supporters furious, the arguments continuing into the following morning — never quite resolved.

The series sits at 1-1. The boxing public hasn't moved on. Neither has Cameron.  She is a technically accomplished southpaw from Northampton, England, who operates without sentiment or ceremony — she walked into a hostile Dublin arena once before and dethroned the home favorite without flinching. The idea that she would walk into Croke Park and wilt under the occasion is not supported by anything she has ever done in a professional ring. That's what makes this fight so charged. Taylor would need to beat her in front of her own people, emphatically, to finally close the chapter. And Cameron has every intention of making sure that doesn't happen.

A rubber match at Croke Park is the fight the record books demand. The unfinished business writes itself.

Caroline Dubois

The younger sister of WBA heavyweight champion Daniel Dubois. Unbeaten as a professional. Holder of the WBC, WBO, and Ring lightweight titles — Taylor's home division, which matters enormously. Fast, slick, and carrying genuine punching power for her weight class. Twenty-five years old.

These two have never met. That's the point.

There's a specific kind of electricity generated by the genuinely unknown — by a fight where the outcome cannot be reverse-engineered from what has come before, because nothing has come before. Dubois operates at lightweight, which removes the weight negotiation issues that complicate other options here. She is not a prospect inflated by promotional machinery; the titles on her résumé are real, contested, and earned. What she hasn't yet done is share a ring with a fighter of Taylor's caliber — and that cuts both ways.

Is there a more electric prospect in women's boxing right now than the fighter who could turn a farewell bout into the beginning of her own era? If Croke Park is about more than conclusion — if it's about what comes next for a sport that Taylor has elevated beyond recognition — then Dubois is the most forward-looking option on this list. A win catapults her into the stratosphere. A loss, hard-fought and valiant, establishes her credibility anyway. This is the torch-passing fight. The one that looks forward.

Alycia Baumgardner

Ohio-born. Super featherweight. Holder of the WBA, IBF, WBO, and Ring titles at 130 pounds. The woman who stopped Miriam Gutierrez and dethroned the previously unbeaten Terri Harper. Heavy hands, relentless pressure, and a big-fight temperament that has never buckled when the moment demanded most.

A weight negotiation would be required — Taylor operates primarily at lightweight — but elite fighters resolve these arrangements routinely. What can't be negotiated away is the jeopardy Baumgardner carries. She is the most physically threatening name on this list. The puncher-boxer who doesn't need mistakes to hurt you; she simply accumulates damage until something gives.

What better way to close a career than to silence the one question the record books still can't fully answer? If Taylor wants her final fight to be remembered as the hardest question she ever asked herself — and answered — Baumgardner is precisely that. The most dangerous farewell available.