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Irish AIBA World Championship News

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Olympic medalists Ken Egan and Paddy Barnes will be in action next Saturday and Sunday at the 2009 AIBA World Senior Championships at the Mediolanum Forum in Milan.

Both boxers, who were seeded for the tournament by virtue of being ranked in the top eight in the world, received byes into the last 32, along with Con Sheehan, who will also be in action next Sunday.

Dublin flyweight Declan Geraghty will be the first Irish boxer in the ring when he takes on Manyo Plange of Ghana this morning.

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September 1st

51Kg: Declan Geraghty (Ireland) v Manyo Plange (Ghana) (morning - last 64)
64Kg: Philip Sutcliffe (Ireland) v Tralan Lupu (Romania) (afternoon -last 64)
91+Kg: Cathal McMonagle (Ireland) v Thomas Markovic (Croatia) (evening - last 32)

Last 64
54Kg: John Joe Nevin (Ireland) v Ramir Najafou (Azerbaijan) (September 2nd, morning)
57Kg: David Oliver Joyce (Ireland) v Wuttichai Masuk (Thailand) (September 3rd, afternoon)
60Kg: Eric Donovan (Ireland) v Dakhodir Karimov (Tajikistan) (September 2nd, evening)
69Kg: Willie McLaughlin (Ireland) v Come Ndyishmiye (Burundi) (September 3rd, morning)
75Kg: Darren O’Neill (Ireland) v Ranjan Shlpakar (Nepal) September (September 2nd, afternoon)

Last 32
48Kg: Paddy Barnes (Ireland) v Peter Munka (Kenya) (September 5th, morning)
81Kg: Ken Egan (Ireland) v Muhammad Sutani Quadir (Afghanistan) (September 6th, afternoon)
91Kg: Con Sheehan (Ireland) v Osmai Duarte Acosta (Cuba) (September 6th, evening)



Irish 2009 AIBA World Championships Squad

· 48Kg: (Light flyweight) Paddy Barnes (Holy Family, Belfast))

· 51Kg: (Flyweight) Declan Geraghty (Dublin Docklands)

· 54Kg: (Bantamweight) John Joe Nevin (Cavan)

· 57Kg; (Featherweight) David Oliver Joyce (St Michael’s Athy)

· 60Kg: (Lightweight) Eric Donovan (St Michael’s Athy)

· 64Kg: (Light welterweight) Philip Sutcliffe (Crumlin)

· 69Kg: (Welterweight) Willie McLaughlin (Illies GG, Donegal)

· 75Kg: (Middleweight) Darren O’Neill (Paulstown, Kilkenny)

· 81Kg: (Light heavyweight) Ken Egan (Neilstown)

· 91Kg: (Heavyweight) Con Sheehan (Clonmel)

· 91+Kg: (Super heavyweight) Cathal McMonagle (Holy Trinity, Belfast)



IABA President: Dominic O’Rourke
Team Manager: Des Donnelly

Coaches: Billy Walsh, Zuar Antia, Jimmy Halpin

Strength & Conditioning Coach: Scott Murphy

Performance Psychologist: Gerry Hussey

Performance Analysis: Alan Swanton


September 1, 2009

 

Sutcliffe Bows Out Of World Champs

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Philip Sutcliffe bowed out of the AIBA World Senior Championships at the preliminary round (last 64) stage this afternoon after he was beaten 12-5 by Romanian light welterweight Tralan Lupu at the Mediolanum Forum in Milan.

Sutcliffe, who boxes out of the Crumlin club in Dublin, was 2-0 down two minutes into the bout but restored parity at 2-2 before the bell for the end of the first.

However, Lupu, who beat Irish 2008 Olympian John Joe Joyce in Turkey earlier this year, was 7-5 ahead at the end of the second and addded another five points to his total in the final frame.


Earlier today, Declan Geraghty got Ireland’s campaign off to a winning start with an impressive 12-5 verdict over Manyo Plange of Ghana.

The Dublin Docklands flyweight, who, like Sutcliffe, was making his World Championship debut, will now meet Mumim Veli of Macenonia in the last 32 next Friday morning.

Geraghty, the reigning Irish senior 51Kg champion, was 3-2 up at the end of the first round in Milan. Plange, who won one bout at the Beijing Olympics, did manage to level affairs at 3-3 but two superb lefts from the Irish southpaw helped him to a 8-4 advantage going into the third and concluding stanza..

Belfast super heavyweight Cathal McMonagle will be in action this evening

 

Today I noticed a billboard just outside Omagh advertising a boxing event in aid of a cancer charity. It will be at the Mellon Country House Hotel in Omagh on the 15th October (or was 16th?). Tickets are £15.

 

Ta puca, the super heavies are on now:hi:

 

I went to the Fighting Irish Exhibition today at the Ulster American Folk Museum in Omagh. Although advertised at £6.50, I was pleasantly surprised that they let me in for free. They only charge you if you want to see the whole exhibition in the museum.

Yep I saw the Dan Donelly preserved arm, they have a measurement next to the display so you can compare the length of his arm to your own, and man, he had a long arm, that is all I can say.

I watched a really interesting 30 minute video (made by BBC NI Sport - and featured interviews with Liam Neeson) on all of the famous Irish fighters from John L Sullivan, Gene Tunney, Rinty Monaghan and right threw to Collins, and McGuigan.

I especially liked the coverage of Rinty Monaghan, those looked like great nights at the Kings Hall when he fought. It showed him singing 'When Irish Eyes are Smiling" along with a very vocal Irish crowd in the Kings Hall and then the next clip showed Rinty hammer Patterson to clinch the world title in the Kings Hall. Brilliant stuff.

Interesting comment made by Barney Eastwood in the video, he said that McGuigan never achieved his full potential, but when pressed wouldnt go into it further. It was great to see the footage of Ali in Ireland during his fighting days and footage of his fight with Alvin Lewis. I was very surprised that Croke Park was half empty, the commentary noted that this event didnt capture the imagination of the Irish public. Very shocked to learn that.

The clips of Collins and McGuigan makes me want to re-watch a lot of those fights I forgot how good those nights were, especially that monumental crowd that was packed into Loftus Road that night McGuigan sealed the title.

The exhibition itself was intriguing, apparently it took the curator 2 years to put all of this together and the type of items on display ranged from:

- Hugh Russells Lonsdale Belt (another boxer I loved to go an see at the Kings Hall)
- Wayne McCulloughs Olympic medal and another medal? Also his shorts and robe that he wore that night he fought Hamed
-Gene Tunney boxing Gloves, the punchbag that J L Sullivan used, a big overcoat belonging to J L Sullivan.
- Load of old Ring Magazine front covers, an old front cover from Arena Magazine (I never heard of this one) plue a copy of an old Jack Dempsey Sports Magazine.
- Loads of other Irish fighters memorabila, such as McLarnin, Caldwell, McGuigan etc

On the way out I bought a great poster of 'The Fighting Irishmen' - I'm getting this framed. I also picked up an interesting DVD - 'Bloody Canvas' - the story of Mike McTigue and his rise during the civil war in Dublin in 1923.

The Fighting Irish exhibition was brought over from New York and will be in Omagh until some time in November, highly recommended:good

 

One other thing I learned today. Teddy Atlas is part Irish! Who would have guessed!

 

cathal mc was beaten 15-5...looked very very poor

 

Probably the Commonwealth.

If anyone was wondering why I only predicted 1 medal for us at these Championships I think today will give part of the answer. 2 down already, although in fairness McMonagle would never have been thought of as a medal threat.

Con Sheehan's after getting a very tough draw aswell, although thankfully none of the first opponents for our other fighters stand out.

 

Saw Muhammad Ali today, it was an unbelievable experience. I'll try to put the video up on youtube.

 

What was the name of the woman hu fought on the undercard of Dunne vs Cordoba? She was brill

 

Katie Taylor.

 

Ryt thanks mate :happy

 

In case some a ye aint seen it here is the start of my preview article from Boxing Scene . com (its a bit of a monster) -

In an attempt to play his part in tidying up the division and the mess that is the WBA’s super bantamweight title triangle, Bernard Dunne (28(15)-1(1)-0) invites a nightmare into his house when he faces Thai powerhouse and WBA interim champion Poonsawat Kratingdaenggym (38(27)-1(0)-0) to battle it out for Dunne’s first defence of his WBA regular super bantamweight title at the O2 Arena in Dublin, Ireland on the 26th of September.

Unless they’ve been travelling around the world on a J1 visa trekking through Belize, Machu Picchu and Laos then there is hardly an Irishman on the planet that could have failed to notice the rise of Bernard Dunne, who has almost singlehandedly revived professional boxing in Ireland. Despite the popularity of John Duddy amongst the immigrant diaspora in the US, no professional boxer has captured the Irish publics imagination like Dunne since Steve Collins filled the Dublin’s O2 (then “The Point”), Cork’s Pairc Ui Chaoimh, Manchester’s Nynex Arena and most famously Millstreet’s Green Glens Arena during the mid 1990’s.

Of course Collins, who’s career path draws parallels with Dunne’s, had the aid of high profile British fighters such as the flamboyant Chris Eubank and destructive Nigel Benn to ensure that enough media hype and interest was generated to power all the lights in Birmingham for a year. Sadly for Dunne he has no such caricatured figures to be pitted against, but what he does have is the technical boxing skills of any top Cuban amateur, an endearing cheeky chappy persona, manager Brian Peters, and until recently a booming Celtic Tiger economy to make up for the lack of household names in the division – Irish households that is. But, if Bernard Dunne has Brian Peters, the County Meath farmer, publican, and entrepreneur has provided the bricks and mortar, the timber and the nails, the plasterboard and silicone mastic (need I go on?) for this particular development.

Dunne turned professional in December 2001 in the sweaty cut throat surroundings of the LA boxing scene and Freddie Roach’s Wild Card Gym but Dunne did not confine himself to local fights in California and travelled throughout the states to Connecticut, Oklahoma, Nevada, West Virginia, New Mexico and Arizona garnering nationwide TV coverage on SRL promoted ESPN2 cards, which undoubtedly boosted the American boxing publics awareness of this seemingly frail and anaemic yet marauding Irishman.

However, in 2005 with Sugar Ray Leonard’s attentions focused on The Contender TV series and the pangs of homesickness and mammies cooking rumbling in the Dynamo’s belly, Brian Peters brought the matured (14(9) - 0) fighter back home to Dublin to set sail of a voyage that would bring fame, fortune and glory to both. Peters surrounded Dunne with a close-knit team, stalwart trainer Harry Hawkins at the Holy Trinity Gym now trained the Neilstownman and later fitness and conditioning guru Mick McGurn was brought in to answer lingering question marks which dogged Dunne’s ability to cope with the age old conundrum of making weight and maintaining power.................

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