Thomas Carty
The Dublin Heavyweight
Bio
Right then, Thomas Carty is the big Dublin southpaw who gets the honour of fighting in front of 82,000 of his own people at Croke Park on 5 September 2026 — on the undercard of Katie Taylor's farewell, against Doncaster's Dave Allen. He calls it the Carty Party. Given the noise Irish crowds make, the name fits.
Make no mistake, Carty is a proper heavyweight rather than a novelty act on a big card. A long-armed southpaw with a jab that keeps orthodox pressure fighters at the end of the stick and the angles to turn them, he is at his best when the fight is fought at his range and his pace. Get dragged into a brawl, though, and questions get asked — and Allen is precisely the sort of man who asks them.
Luke's view: the Allen fight is the biggest of Carty's career by a distance, because Allen has a chin that does not go anywhere and has shared a ring with the man who just beat Moses Itauma for a world title. Win clearly on the cards in Dublin and Carty is a live name in the British and Irish heavyweight picture. If you know, you know — a home win at Croke Park announces a fighter properly.