Irish Boxing

Good win for Cacace last night. Marco McCullough and Nevin also won.

 

nevin has another fight lined up soon hopefully he can get some momentum, no idea what his doing at lightweight though

 

Hopefully the plan is to move down one or two divisions in the future. Did he have much notice for this fight?

I remember going to see Nevin fight at the WSB in the York hall he beat some french undefeated Pro and looked pretty good in the process. But after the bout Nevin was just standing at the bar drinking a bottle of Bulmers. The only other boxer i've seen do that was Robin Deakin, who didn't even get changed first, he just left the ring and went straight to the bar haha

 

I was in the York that night too, Nevin was outstanding. Conlon and Selby had a war too that same show. Nevin had well over a months notice for his last fight and more than that for his next.

 

From the "Independent";
"But most observers believe that O’Reilly clearly won the fight for an Olympic berth and their views are backed up by an experienced Irish Amateur Boxing Association bout ****yst.

His forensic ****ysis of the bout found that O’Reilly hit the target with 60pc more punches than his opponent.

O’Reilly connected with 36 punches against 22 for Abdin and landed more punches in each of the three rounds.

Moreover, O’Reilly threw 100pc more punches in the first round, twice as many. The three judges went with Abdin 29-28 across the board after three, three minute rounds.

The top three middleweights in Doha qualify for Rio 2016 and Wednesday’s O’Reilly versus Abdin bout was a third place box-off between the losing semi-finalists.

Wednesday’s result saw O’Reilly finish in 4th position, although if Cuba’s Arlen Lopez, who won gold, takes his qualification from the World Series of Boxing earlier this year, O’Reilly will finish in the top three and qualify for Rio.

The deadline for the registration for the first draft of boxers for Rio 2016 is December 4 and if Lopez takes the Doha place, O’Reilly, who won bronze in Doha, is out and will have to qualify in Europe early next year.

The Portlaise BC middleweight is the current European Games champion.

Breakdown of O’Reilly versus Abdim Box-off for a place at the Olympic Games at World Elite Championships in Doha, Qatar.

IRL landed 36 punches v 22 by EGY. IRL landed more punches in each of the 3 rounds. IRL landed 60pc more punches than EGY
IRL threw 87 punches v 44 from EGY in first round. So outscored the EGY but also with a higher work rate, IRL throw 100% more punches in the first round, twice as many as Abdin."

 

Watched it again earlier, it was even more one sided than I remembered it. Shocking decision! Unfortunately I reckon Lopez will choose his qualification place from the worlds, not only because Joblonski represents less of a threat to O'Reilly but I think most people would choose the worlds as being a world champion means more than coming runner up in the WSB.

 

Still couple months training camp to go ask me closer to date I'll let you know how he's looking 👍

 

Boxed Jablonski over in Poland last Irish intrrnational beaten close fight 5-3 voted fight of night taught did enough but very close fight and Oreilly made easy work of him top talent 👍

 

O'Reilly's 4th place qualification route has been ruled out by AIBA. As someone else said, they're making up the rules as they go along http://m.independent.ie/sport/other...low-in-bid-to-make-rio-olympics-34117037.html

 

Never knew that, Jablonski looked good in the WSB but O'Reilly is a class above and i think the Cuban will see it that way as well.

 

Ah **** sake. AIBA really should be making these things clear before from the get go, ****ing joke. O'Reilly will surely get signed up for WSB on the strength of his recent form though.

 

O'Reilly beat Jablonski in Poland just before the worlds at the felix stamm tournament

O'Reilly still has the European qualifiers, WSB and then the final world qualifiers where 5 boxers qualify so I would be amazed if he didn't qualify

 

Yeah I remember that, think it was given as a split decision although O'Reilly won comfortably. O'Reilly still should qualify, although he'll have to get past Conor Coyle in the seniors.

 

Good luck to Macklin tonight....

 

You blow with the wind Fra.....