Irish Boxing

O'Neill makes perfect start at the Stadium

Sunday, 13 February 2011 11:42
Defending middleweight champion Darren O'Neill got his 75Kg defence off to a flying start with a second round stoppage of Derry's Conor Coyle in the quarter-finals session of the Elite Championships at the National Stadium on Saturday night.

Coyle took a count in the opening frame of this encounter as O'Neill picked off four points without reply.
The Kilkenny southpaw switched his point of attack to the body early in the second and the three-rounder was stopped after Coyle took another count with O'Neill 6-0 ahead.


O'Neill will now meet Belfast's Conrad Cummings in the semi-finals after the Holy Trinity man, who had his dad Patrick Cummings and Bernard Dunne's former coach Harry Hawkins in his corner, comprehensively beat Rory O'Donoghue 16-1. O'Donoghue's exit brings Cork's interest in the 2011 Championships to a close.

Elsewhere in the middleweight division, Chris Blaney chalked up a resounding 13-1 win over Andrew Jennings and 2009 European Youth champion Jason Quigley found the target nine times in his win over Luke Keeler.

Quigley's repelled numerous Keeler attacks with some slick count-punching, particularly in the second when Keeler upped the tempo after dropping the first 4-0. Quigley extended his advantage to 6-1 by the end of that round and added another three points to his total in the third to earn a 9-2 decision.

Meanwhile, Thomas Roohan, who boxes out of the Ballincarrow BC in Sligo, will meet Ken Egan in next Friday's light-heavyweight semi-finals after registering a 4-2 win over Brian Fitzpatrick.

The corresponding 81Kg semi-final between David Joyce and Sean Allen was postponed at the end of the second round because of a malfunction with the computer scoring system.

Both men will now meet next Friday night with the winner advancing to face Joe Ward in next Saturday's semi-final.

Because of the malfunction in the computer scoring system the seven remaining bouts of tonight's quarter-final session were decided on judges markings.

Likewise, defending heavyweight champion Con Sheehan claimed a unanimous 5-0 decision over Tommy McCarthy to move to within two bouts of winning his fourth Irish title in succession.

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should have expected that for a partitionist such as yourself :deal

 

well im not cantona so i cant give that level of confirmation but Id be reletively certain its a done deal! :deal

also bbc are showing highlights the next day :deal

 

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I'm thinking of going to see the Lee V McEwan fight anyone know if Lee is selling tickets on his own website or if he even has a website?

 

I was reading a piece in the Irish American News about boxing and was shocked to discover that the whure who wrote it seemed to know what he was talking about , so I look down to see who it was and low and behold it was the one and only Leonard Gunning.
How long have you been doing this?

 

Bonjour, Welkomen, Good evening, Cad a bhfuil tu.

Here are the votes of the confused and celibate jury.



TheMessiah - We're all a bunch of shitebags - 0 points
Tony Mush - Stand uo for Paul Dudey - 2 points
BamBam - Songs my Bollocks - 4 points
O Cuinneagain - Amhran na bhfiann - 6 points
Slapbangwallop - I just can't get enough - 8 points
Fra - We're not Brazil, we're Northern Ireland - 10 points

and finally

Max Banjo - We love you - 12 points

 

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Well if the votes were influenced by pretty boy good looks it was probably that fella Maher, but the year that was 2010 irish fighter of the year has to be Willie Casey.

 

Guys, does anyone have a McCloskeys career set on DVD?

 

when your fighting in a casino on a hbo card and you are the "home fighter" you generally dont have to sell tickets:deal

 

Irish Fighter of the year - Willie Casey
Irish Fight of the year - Willie Casey v Paulie Hyland
Domestic Fight of the year - Andy Murray v Oisin ***an
Prospect of the year - Carl Frampton
Newcomer of the year - Jamie Kavanagh
Comeback of the year - Anthony Fitzgerald (career comeback)
- Andy Murray v Claudinei Lacerda (comeback in a fight)
Knockout of the year - Paul McCloskey v Guiseppe Lauri

 

Three correct out of eight Billy!

 

Irish Fighter of the year - Willie Casey
Irish fight of the year - Brian Magee v Mads Larsen
Domestic fight of the year - Casey v Hyland
Prospect of the year - Jamie Kavanagh
Newcomer of the year - Seanie Monaghan
Comeback of the year - Anthony Fitzgerald
Knockout of the year - Tommy Tolan v J.J.McDonagh

 

thats four correct.