Irish Boxing

Heard there was a lot of trouble trying to get a venue. Apparently the police don't want a crowd of Irish barbarians drinking in their city?

Must be getting us confused with Govan and Ibrox's finest :deal

 

Took ages to find the right venue and we kissed a lot of frogs but we got our first preference in the end thankfully.

 

Just looked up this Bar38 on street view and I've been there before! Got kicked out of some dive across the road I think, a place on three levels, for chucking beer mats. Good times. Roll on Manchester and the passes have arrived :thumbsup

 

'From Poverty Bay to Broadway' is on now on Setanta Ireland....good watch

 

Mine aint, I think I've had my first ever knock back back for a pass. They also told Kavanagh I couldnt come up and watch him spar today as the gym is closed to journos - I think they have spat their dummy out.

Time to stir some shít in retaliation. So I went round the Manchester gyms with the Dudey Army posters and got photos with them holding up the poster in support of El Duderino.

 

:-( that's bad form, were u talking to Jamie ???? **** sake the world of boxing does not revolve around team Khan and like you were going up to see Jamie not Amir.

 

Yeah, spoke to him at lunchtime.

He has a media workout at 12.30pm in the Triangle on Tuesday anyway so I will see him then.

 

GEE BEE MULTI-NATIONS
BERNARD O'NEILL (IABA PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER)

Michael Conlon (red)

IRISH Elite flyweight champ Michael Conlon came from behind to get Ireland's Gee Bee Multi Nations campaign off to a winning start in Helsinki, Finland today.

The St John Bosco BC (Belfast) ace was trailing 1-0 to Russia's Jaroslave Navlivako in today's 52Kg quarter-final but rallied to post a convincing 10-5 win.


David Oliver Joyce
Meanwhile, EU champion David Oliver Joyce joined Conlon in Saturday's semi-finals with a resounding 16-4 verdict over England's Martin Ward, who boxes out of the Repton ABC in London, a former club of 2004 Irish Olympian Andy Lee.

Ward claimed a European Junior title in 2009 and followed that up with an English Senior title win at featherweight last year.

Irish Elite champ Adam Nolan, meantime, complete the Friday afternoon hat- trick with a fine 6-0 win over Mikhail Kiiski of Estonia.


Adam Nolan
European bronze medalist Tyrone McCullagh and 2009 European Youth champion Jason Quigley will be in action this evening.

Ken Egan and Tommy McCarthy have received byes into Saturday's semi-finals.

Gee Bee Multi-Nations Helsinki Finland


April 8th - Quarter Finals

52Kg: Michael Conlan (St John Bosco) beat Jaroslave Navlivaiko (Russia) 10- 5
60Kg: David Oliver Joyce (St Michael's Athy) beat Martin Ward (England) 16-4
69Kg: Adam Nolan (Bray) beat Mikhail Kiiski (Estonia) 6-0


April 8th - (Evening)

56Kg: Tyrone McCullagh (Holy Family) v Matti Koota (Finland)
75:Kg: Jason Quigley (Finn Valley) v Arttjom Fjodorov (Estonia)


April 9th - Semi-Finals


52Kg:Michael Conlon v Pedro Matos (Portugal)

60Kg: David Oliver Joyce v Artjoms Ramlavs (Latvia)

69Kg: Adam Nolan v Scott Cardle (England)

81Kg:Kenny Egan (Neilstown) v Raitis Sankevics (Latvia)

91Kg:Tommy McCarthy (Oliver Plunkett) v Rain Karlston (Estonia)

 

Irish boxers dominate in Europe

Friday, 8 April 2011 14:48
Ireland's boxers are guaranteed at least four silver and five bronze medals from international competition following seven wins from seven in Poland and Finland.
John Joe Nevin, Joe Ward, Con Sheehan and Darren O'Neill are all through to Friday night's finals at the Feliks Stamm Multi-Nations in Warsaw.

And Michael Conlon, Adam Nolan and David Oliver Joyce followed that up with three quarter-final wins on the trot at the Gee Bee tournament in Helsinki.

The trio join Ken Egan and Tommy McCarthy, who both received byes into the semi-finals, in Saturday's semi-finals in the Finnish capital.
Tyrone McCullagh and Jason Quigley will be involved in quarter-final bouts in Helsinki later on Friday evening.

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Why are Ireland so good at amateur boxing? It baffles and amazes me at times:yep

 

good man, cheers

 

Its almost becoming embarrassing now :good

Wonder how many of the young lads coming through will go pro in the future? Even if its not with Irish promoters, there must be promoters in the UK eyeing up our amateurs? Nice hearing about lads winning medals in the vest, but would be nice to see a few more lads with titles around their waist as well :deal

 

I can think of a lot of good irish amateurs who would make good pros,and im sure a good lot of them will eventually turn over to the pro game. Especially lads with styles suited to the pros, like Sutcliffe and David Oliver Joyce. Maybe John joe Nevin and Darren O neill aswell? Im sure a good few names will turn pro after london 2012 anyways:good

 

I've wanted O'Neill to go pro for ages, but the lads on here say he is happy to stay as an amateur and be a teacher. I assume these lads won't be getting the same funding due to the cut backs, so therefore going pro might be a better option?

On the otherhand, a lot of pros are struggling to get fights, as promoters are struggling to make money. I think Warren will sign up more Irish lads. He probably sees that there is potential in Ireland to firstly, improve his own stable by signing lads who were successful amateurs and secondly, he probably sees that there is the potential to make money in Belfast and Dublin. Ditto for Matchroom

 

id say and hope derll be a deluge of top class irish ams turnin pro between now and after london especially after london
were goin to be spoiled
at the end of the day we all support pro boxing more than am boxing so hopefully the majority turn over
id say there will be planty of promoters in us and britain aswell as ireland lookin for their signatures