The Official "Sam 'The Shame' Sexton I hope you get SMASHED" Thread

whats the latest on the betting and the undercard?

 

Rogan: No bad blood with Breen

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naw, goin home for the Dunne fight instead

 

BoxingNews 04.09.2009
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WHY I'M STANDING BY MY MAN, JOHN BREEN
The reason I have felt it necessary to write this letter is because so many journalists and members of the boxing fraternity have telephoned our home to ask my husband John Breen what has caused the split between himself and Martin Rogan. John being John, a man of few words, refuses to be drawn on the matter. However, I would like to set the record straight.

After all the years of hard work getting Martin Rogan to the level he has attained. Rogan has dumped John. John accepted Rogan's feeble excuses - i.e. "I can't train in your gym because of the fall out with Eamon Magee and its too much to expect you to travel to the John Bosco Gym". which is incidentally less than a mile from Breen's Gym. John wished Rogan good luck, the shook hands and Rogan kissed John on the cheek.

In anger and disgust I pursued the matter, much to the chagrin of John, and telephoned Rogan. I asked him to give me a valid reason and not the petty excuses he had given John as to why he had left his tutelage after all John had done for him, not only on a professional, but also personal level. Rogan responded initially by saying it was nothing to do with me. However, when pressed Rogan told me he had felt for the last year or so that John had brought him as far as he could.

Rogan is like so many boxers that have gone before him. They reach a certain level, become full of their own importance and forget who helped to get them to that level.

It has been widely reported that all Rogan has said on the matter is "I have the highest respect for John Breen, not only as a trainer but as a man" but that doesn't give any reason for the split. His silence is deafening and as John has trained many boxers to world title level, one can only assume that it boils down to a money saving exercise.
Yet again John, being John, wishes Rogan all the best in his career. I am afraid I am not of the same sentiment.

Laura Breen, Belfast.

 

I know - I read it through my fingers.

 

looks like Sexton is in the clear for the accusations of whippin up sectarianism.

I still hope he gets battered fae pillar ta post!

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