Irish Boxing

So should I have a punt on these guys? :thumbsup

Medzhidov
tishchenko
alimkunaly
yelusinenov

 

Thanks for the advice. Cheers.:thumbsup

 

Tg4 have the rights to the elite finals and i for one am delighted,they have been at the last two and the intermediates,
They show all the fights not just the poster boys and that in itself is comendable,
Apparently rte and setanta put in bids aswell but once every four years is not good enough,Well done to the iaba and its not often we say that,

 

:deal

Although when you look at the wall-to-wall coverage the Rugby gets -
Rugby! - a total minority sport played by a few fee-paying schools in Munster and Dublin and globally in about 8 countries - it does get frustrating.

 

Pat Ryan of portlaoise is the new president of the iaba,
I hope this is a change for the better,

 

its popular in the north of the country in the unionist areas:good

 

any1 anyother tips who they think will win...this is a chance to make some dough:good

 

OK. The point I was making that on the one hand we have Rugby , a total minority sport, not just nationally but globally. (Hell the vast majority of the human race are excluded on the basis of size alone ffs!).

On the other hand we have boxing - a truly global sport and one we excel at.

Then you look at the amount of attention one get as against the other. atsch

Just to back up my point - Mrs Len has by pure coincidence just right now complained to me that update after update is coming into her smartphone and they're all about - guess what - Rugby! :-(( :deal

Boxing is potentially our 'Nokia' (Finland), our 'Cuckoo clock' (Swiss). Its potentially our global niche of expertise. If we had an ounce of sense we would be seriously investing in it. But as with so much else in this country we squander it. :dead

 

draw for the doha World Championships

Light flyweight: Brendan Irvine v Nico Hernandez (USA)

Bantamweight: Mick Conlan (c) BYE – fights Robinelson Viera (Brazil) or Jayden Hansen (Australia) in Round 2

Lightweight: Sean McComb v Lindozo Garza (Mexico)

Light welterweight: Dean Walsh v Luis Diaz (Venezuela)

Welterweight: Adam Nolan v Eimantas Stanionis (Lithuania)

Middleweight: Michael O’Reilly v Valerii Kharlamov (Ukraine)

Light heavyweight: Joe Ward BYE – fights Oleksandr Khyzhniak (Ukraine) or Abdelhafid Benchabla (Algeria) in Round 2

any opinion lads:good

 

Nolan got euro champ staright out of the gate,
Mc comb will meet salinov if he beats the mexican(which he should)
Irvine got a tricky but winnable one,
Conlon got the best draw on paper anyway,
O reilly is too smart for that ukraine
Ward is too strong for his,
Walsh could have a banana skin venesualan boxing has come on alot in the amateurs,but he should come through,

 

I fancy Ward and Conlon to get to the final anyway, Ward avoids De La Cruz till the final and he has beaten the Kazachk no 1 seed before handy enmoguh who he should meet in the semis.

 

agreed , o'reilly got a hard enough draw him,khamukov,alimkunaly and the Uzbek are all on the one side of the draw, the 4 best in the world imo

 

the head to head odds for some of the opening bouts are on paddy power.... look interesting:good

 

Think O'Reilly will win a 50/50 opener and Irvine to win also.

 

Looks like we'll be waiting a bit longer yet before we see Lee-Saunders.