Irish Boxing

I'm happy enough about this, I've thought for a while now that Steward was a bad trainer for Lee. Besides being a big name who could get him loads of publicity I dont think he was getting him to fight the right way or was improving him.

I hope now he can start to build some momentum.

 

will he stay stateside ? his bird is in new york so i can see him staying there maybe.

 

was it a mutual decision? or did one decide to leave the other!

 

amen to that

 

Lee and Steward splitting is the best news for andy lees future i always taught he was making andy one dimensioanl (looking like a Klitscho in the ring) and even after the vera fight he supposed to be a hall of fame trainer and andy still couldnt and still cant tie up opponents on the inside very well he needs a trainer to improve his weakenesses not to just work on his good things i am a huge andy lee fan and i think this is the best move for him if he could go to germany and get top class middleweight sparring he would go far!

 

why germany?

 

Thats where all the top middleweights seem to be like Arthur Abraham(hes at SMW now but would still be quality sparring) Sebastian Sylvester Kohen Gevor Sebastian Zbik Gennady Golovkin mahir oral there is a hell of a lot top quality fighters there maybe not actually move to a coach there but get over there regularly for good sparring

 

Yeah good point. I dont want to see andy sign up with a **** trainer but i really don't know who would suit him. Room at the Wildcard for one more !!

 

ya would probably do well there but prob wont happen especially wit roach takin on Felix Sturm and Mat Macklin in the past few months and he already has Craig Mcewen and Dean Byrne and of course Manny Pacquaio so id imagine he is fairly busy at the moment!

 

Hope its Peters that takes him Peters seems to get the best out of him for his fights, anyone but K2, hopefully he doesn't do there like Banks terrible promotion from K2

 

ya I think andy will be more concerend with getting a coach rather than a promoter even when he was a huge prospect in da US he was never signed by a promoter and he surely had offers? It Wouldnt surprise me if he stayed in New York with Joe Gamache lik he did for the Belghecham fight and his Girlfriend is in NY so its prob where he would lik to be!

 

I agree with you about mccloughin but I think that con sheehan will win the heavy weight division quite easily. He's a quality operator for a heavyweight and has great boxing skills for a big man. even when I've seen him boxing in European competitions he's a better skilled boxer than most but sometime gets out muscled but he's only 20 or maybe 21 (very young for a heavyweight) so he's only gona get stronger. I don't think any of the middle weights you mentioned are in the same leauge as darren oneill, oreillys not bad but I think oneill wins the middle weight crown easy and is a big medal hope for 2012

 

Murray halts ***an to retain Irish lightweight belt

Submitted by Steve Wellings on 16 February, 2010 - 19:17

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Andy Murray and Oisin ***an served up an exciting bout on Saturday 13th February with Murray prevailing in the fifth round with the Irish lightweight title still firmly in his possession.
***an had, as expected, given a good account of himself until referee David Irving stepped in to save the proud Dubliner from further punishment. Oisin vehemently protested the stoppage and after failing to show at the post-fight press conference issued a statement which catalogued his disappointment.
“Just because I went into this fight as the underdog against the new ‘Golden Boy’ of Irish boxing, shouldn’t make things inconceivable and unobtainable for me,” he said.
“If you watch footage, you’ll see that I wasn’t hurt in the slightest at all during the fight and I was continuing to throw punches up until the very end. I wasn’t in trouble at any given time - it’s plain and simple to see. In fact, our gameplan was to up-it-a-gear in the seventh round.

“Big congrats to Andy. He's a very nice lad and one that I hope will do Irish boxing proud.”

***an started brightly and took advantage of Murray’s low left hand, landing repeated rights to head and body before Andy measured the range and started picking off classy combinations. ***an’s eyes were swollen and mouth seeping blood when Irving waved it off, much to ***an’s chagrin. Murray was ahead on my card but the stoppage did come as a surprise considering the action was at a lull when the ending arrived. Referee Mickey Vann, seated at ringside and officiating on the night, told matchmaker Tomas Rohan that it was the sort of contest when a referee is looking for an excuse to step in. Irving found one and acted swiftly.
Murray felt that his stellar amateur pedigree and superior movement provided the keys to victory. “The stronger the opponent, the better you will see me perform. There are even bigger performances in me yet,” he added.
The Irish heavyweight title had lay dormant for 13 years until Coleman Barrett defeated Colin Kenna over ten rounds to claim the belt and set-up a possible clash with Martin Rogan, who was an interested spectator at ringside. Barrett used his southpaw skills to frustrate Kenna and survived a potentially devastating second round knockdown to box is way home.
Kenna, in no great shape at just over 17 stone, lunged forward but was never able to recreate his success and was comfortably beaten over the course of the bout. Barrett was upbeat post-fight, “He has good punching power and caught me with a great shot but I got up, continued and went on to win it, because that’s what champions are made of.
“I’m happy to fight whoever Brian Peters or the boxing board puts in front of me,” Coleman added, when quizzed about a potential showdown with Rogan.

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Tallaght featherweight Patrick Hyland did not take full advantage of a primetime TV slot as he went through the motions against tough Londoner Mickey Coveney, stopping the away man in the seventh with a chilling right hand. It was not all plain sailing for Pat who had problems dealing with Coveney’s southpaw stance and short stature.
Mickey qualified for his chance courtesy of a Cork-born father and said afterwards that he was proud to have contested the national belt. Hyland shrugged off his loose start and promised a better showing next time. The local man is skilled and I would read little more into this showing than an off-night. Hyland has been sparring Ricky Burns, in preparation for the Scot’s upcoming ‘world’ title challenge, and is eyeing a crack at European title holder Oleg Yefimovich.
“I see it as a good workout even though I was a bit sluggish in the first few rounds getting to grips with his style and improving the accuracy,” said a philosophical Hyland at the press conference. “These small boys are hard to hit with the ducking and rolling and he was picking his shots against me.

“I was off my game for the first four rounds and he wanted the Irish title off me and no doubt trained hard for this opportunity, so hats off to him. I was comfortable and I knew it would come eventually but I was a little frustrated until I got back to my boxing and finished the job,” he concluded.

Dubliner Anthony Fitzgerald outpointed Ciaran Healy of Belfast to claim the vacant Irish super-middleweight title. Referee Mickey Vann scored it 98-94 for the local man in a 10-round attraction that was hotly contested from start to finish.

There were wins for the other three remaining ‘house’ fighters.

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Cuban Alexei Acosta (pictured left) overcame the frustration of his negative opponent’s movement to beat Venezuela’s Felix Machado. The veteran campaigner quit from a cut left eye before the start of the sixth round in a scheduled eight.

Belfast’s Jamie Conlan competed in an eight-rounder in only his second professional outing. Bulgarian journeyman Itsko Veselinov was the victim, falling in the fifth session following a classy body shot and flyweight Conlan will soon find himself in line for a title shot of some description.

Limerick’s Willie Casey lived-up to his puncher’s reputation when starching hapless Fernando Guevara in the first of a scheduled six. It was clear from the outset that overawed Guevara would not present too much of a challenge to the improving featherweight and so it proved as the southpaw used his skills to bludgeon Fernando to defeat.

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Pictured left to right: Andy Murray, Brian Peters, Patrick Hyland, Coleman Barrett.

 

Just give us another accumulator and make it a winner again! :deal :good

 

The Irish senior finals are being held over two nights because of the running of the national novice championships at the same time. This means to watch all the senior finals you will have to pay TWICE!!! No disrespect to the novices but senior finals night is the biggest amateur night of the year and to have novices (less than 5fights) sharing the same bill as Olympic, world, and European meadilists is wrong. Senior or elite finals night should be for senior or elite boxers not novices.