Irish Boxing

For all of the Irish that living overseas or on holiday etc:


There will be a free worldwide stream for the Coyle-Cotena card on Friday night. The boxing is being covered by TG4 from 9.30pm and the free legal stream is at www.tg4.tv




The full card is:


Henry Coyle V Elio Cotena - WBF Light Middleweight Title (12 Rounds)
Patrick Hyland V Fabrizio Trotta - Featherweight (8 Rounds)
Finbarr Eade V Mickey Coveney - Irish Super Featherweight Title (10 Rounds)
John Waldron V Michael Sweeney - Light Heavyweight (8 Rounds)
Paul Hyland V Dai Davies - Super Bantamweight (6 Rounds)
Darren Cruise V Lee Murtagh - Super Middleweight (4 Rounds)

 

to-days picks;
McCullough
O'Hara
DOJ
Donovan
Nolan
JJJ
Brabazon
O'Reilly
O'Reilly
O'Donoghue
Cummings
Quigley
Okungbowa

 

Lads anyone know whats going to happen to the lads that are injured for box offs for the Worlds? Just looking at some of the names and it is scary to think that Paddy Barnes , Darren O Neill and Joe Ward could end up loosing out on quailifying for the Olympics when 2 could well be medal contenders if not all 3.

 

Results so far;
56Kg; Shane Cox (Gorey) lost to Tyrone McCullagh (Holy Family GG) 10-22
60Kg: Sean McComb (Holy Trinity) lost to Mark O'Hara (Holy Trinity) 5-13
60Kg: Eric Donovan (St Michael's Athy) beat Gavin Keating (St Saviours OBA) 24-10
60kg: David Oliver Joyce (St Michael's Athy) beat Jason Conroy (Crumlin) 13-5
69Kg: Niall Murray (Gorey) lost to Adam Nolan (Bray) 6-21

 

I think the Sports Concil would step in and sort it out, they are by far Irelands best Olynpic medal prospects, after Katie.
BTW I think Nevin has the best gold chance of the lot.

 

Wow, JJJ just lost to Roy Sheehan, 16-8! Is the man back or is it a case of knowing JJJ so well?

 

Lads can people head over to the staduim for the box offs? Might head over tomorrow I take it would be pay at the door to get in to see some of the fights.

 

well done Stephen! think we just pipped ya hits wise but think number of visitors was a little less. thats some jump from averaging 300 a day! think we average round 6 ton(but aim for over 750-900)!!! so lots of boxing fans out there.

Taylor fighting tonight
http://www.irish-boxing.com/2011/08/taylor-ready-for-royal-rumble/

 

Gunning whats the story with this charity white collar thing? Was just talking to Paddy on facebook about it he says hes in flying form but reckons that Jabber is going to pull out of it!

Have to say Im looking forward to this McCloskey bill :deal

 

Bit of dornalaiocht beo ar TG4 tomorrow aswell, great to see some new televised cards on Irish soil, after a bit of a drought since the nationals in March:good

 

i wonder if it goes well- will they go again- western boxing could be the souths main source of fight nights!

 

Adam Nolan is some crafter! Jesus christ he really hammered Murray on points. I know he missed the euros over an injury but ppl seem to forget how convincingly he won most of his fights in the seniors! He could be a dark horse....if he's chosen for the worlds he could do very well!! But then again, has he many international fights under his belt?

 

If they get good figures TG4 might be persuaded to take a bit of an interest in televising more fights id say.

 

feck sake rory o donoghue beaten well in his quarter-final! He trains with- and i assume spars- the cubans the whole time. Just seems to underperform in the stadium alot of the time!

 

Quarter-final (11am)
56Kg; Shane Cox (Gorey) lost to Tyrone McCullagh (Holy Family GG) 10-22
60Kg: Sean McComb (Holy Trinity) lost to Mark O'Hara (Holy Trinity) 5-13
60Kg: Eric Donovan (St Michael's Athy) beat Gavin Keating (St Saviours OBA) 24-10
60kg: David Oliver Joyce (St Michael's Athy) beat Jason Conroy (Crumlin) 13-5
69Kg: Niall Murray (Gorey) lost to Adam Nolan (Bray) 6-21
69Kg; Roy Sheehan (St Michael's Athy) beat John Joe Joyce (St Michael's Athy) 16-8
69Kg: Karl Brabazon (St Saviours OBA) beat Paul Upton (Holy Family GG) 16-11
69Kg: Michael O'Reilly (Portlaoise) beat Stephen Donnelly (All Saints) 17-15
75Kg: Stephen O'Reilly (Twintowns) beat Conor Coyle (St Josephs) 9-6
75Kg: Shane Murtagh (Crumlin) beat Rory O'Donoghue (Watergrasshill) 15-8
75Kg: Conrad Cummings (Holy Trinity) beat David Walsh (Holy Trinity) 17-4
75Kg: Jason Quigley (Finn Valley) beat Andrew Jennings (St Catherines) 19-7
91+Kg: Chris Devanney (Dockers) lost to Ken Okungbowa (Athlone) 7-17
Sheehan(well done) and Murtagh(worried about that pick!) screwed my picks.