Irish Boxing

ive heard rocky marciano was a professional lost went back to the ams then came back as a proffesional

 

heffron has 4 fights
the both of them

 

Contacting JP McManus directly could prove difficult (the man didn't get where he is for nothing) but McManus has set up a vehicle through which he sponsers Limerick sports, in particular the county GAA teams.

The organization is called Sporting Limerick. You will see there logo on the front of the county jersey. They have an email address

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A passionate plea to them might be worth a try.

 

Congrats to all the winners of Irish Boxing Awards for 2010.

Irish Boxer of the Year- Willie Casey
Prospect of the Year- Jamie Kavanagh
Irish Champ of the Year: Anto Fitzgerald
...Trainer of the Year: Phil Sutclife.

Well done to Cormac and Steve for organising the awards.

 

willie on rte1 radio now

 

What about the Irish ESB poster of the year?

I'd give it to Slappy ' the plastic paddy' for constantly owning the english ****ers in the brit forum

 

Challenger of the Year - Lee Murtagh

 

Anything interesting said? Trying to see if it is available on RTE site now

 

said he has been sparring for at least two weeks now has 6 weeks (i think) left to go.Said Rigo doesn't like the cold so he is going to get the heat turned off in city west

 

Ormond tells Burns to watch him and then watch out for him-press release
http://www.irish-boxing.com/stories/february11/feb11_ormond_burns.html

National Boxing Awards
http://www.irish-boxing.com/stories/february11/feb11_casey_wins_award.html

 

Carlos will you be keeping a close eye on the the Booth v Arthur fight this Saturday? How close are you to getting a British title fight now? Would be a great fight to see and maybe in the late Summer a win over either and you would be number 1 for a European title crack by the end of the year.

 

Trainer Ronnie Shields on working with Guillermo Rigondeaux and his upcoming fight against Willie Casey on March 19:

“Well you know I still haven’t seen a tape of Willie Casey yet. They got them coming to me in the mail pretty soon. As a matter of fact, Guillermo right now is in Ireland for a press conference. He’ll be back Thursday or Friday and we’ll be back in training. Look, this kid probably is one of the most decorated amateurs ever with two Gold Medals that he won in the Olympics. I tell him like everyone tells him, ‘Look, this is not the amateurs anymore. This is the pros’. So he said, ‘Look I’m 30 years old, put me in with anybody in the world’. That’s why he fought for the WBA interim title in his seventh fight. Now he’s going to Ireland and fighting Willie Casey, a guy that’s similar to him as far not a whole lot of fights but has won a championship over in Europe. So he wants to test his skills against Guillermo. I know he’s a southpaw just like Guillermo, and also he’s supposed to be this big strong guy that knocks everybody out and puts pressure on people. So I’m going to sit down and watch the tape and come up with a game plan. I’m sure of one thing, Guillermo Rigondeaux is going to knock this guy out.”


His views on Tomasz Adamek’s chances against Wladimir Klitschko:

“Well you know what? I really like Tomasz, and Tomasz is a really, really great guy but I just don’t see him winning this fight, and the reason I don’t is because Wladimir has a great jab and he has punching power to go with that. Wladimir doesn’t have the best chin in boxing, but the thing about it is he’s good enough to where Tomasz will never be able to touch him. This guy’s not afraid to throw punches and he’s really hard to hit. You really have to have that style. You can’t have a running style to beat this guy. You have to be aggressive with him and Tomasz doesn’t have the power to be aggressive with him. Right now, I think he needs to fight other guys. I know he’s fighting Kevin McBride in his next fight. Kevin McBride, I trained him for a little bit way back when he first started fighting. He couldn’t fight then and he can’t fight now, so he’ll get by McBride but he may get stopped by a Klitschko.”

 

any mention of who he's sparring with?

 

He's been sparring Phil Sutcliffe, Eric Donovan, David Oliver Joyce, Paul Griffin and probably a good few others in the club. 40 rounds this week

 

cheers, is there any talk of them bringing anyone from abroad to mirror rigondeaux's style or could griffin do that?? apologies, to young to remember griffin when he was a top amateur... (can just about recall the controversy in barcelona)