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Barney passes away 
Boxing: Obituary 20/11/09FOR close on 30 years he was synonymous with Belfast fight nights. In an era headlined by world champions Barry McGuigan, Dave ‘Boy’ McAuley and Crisanto Espana, rarely would a professional boxing promotion not involve colourful local referee Barney Wilson.
Funding boost for the Trinity
SECONDS OUT: Boxing: Professional and Amateur 17/11/09It’s been a successful start to the 2009/2010 season for the Holy Trinity club in west Belfast. The Turf Lodge side celebrated a hat-trick of Irish U21 titles at the National Stadium a fortnight ago via Ruairi Dalton, Mark O’Hara and David Walsh.
O’Neill weighing in behind Heron
SECONDS OUT: Boxing: Professional and Amateur 17/11/09SPRINGHILL’S coach John O’Neill, a five-time Ulster champion at various levels during his career with Clonoe, is encouraged with the steady progress the Moneymore-based club is making. And he’s hoping that progress will continue at this week’s Irish intermediates in Dublin.
Women boxers getting braver insists Norman
SECONDS OUT: Boxing: Professional and Amateur 17/11/09Ireland’s female boxers are becoming braver and self confident. That’s the confident view of Anja Norman, the IABA’s Development Officer for women’s boxing. Last week’s Irish Women’s Tournament at the National Stadium, where Immaculata girls Nicole Meli (Girl 4, 48kg) and Naomi...
LEFT HOOKS
SECONDS OUT: Boxing: Professional and Amateur 17/11/09World junior champ Joe Ward turned on the style twice in 24 hours to seal a 5-3 win for Ireland over Germany at the National Stadium in Dublin last weekend. The Westmeath teenager, who had just celebrated his 16th birthday, ran out a convincing 15-3 winner over middleweight Roman Fress...
Lindsay’s Welsh defence
SECONDS OUT: Boxing: Professional and Amateur 17/11/09MARTIN Lindsay will have to slay a Welsh dragon on the road if Belfast’s classy 15-0 featherweight is to retain his British title. It follows a winning purse bid by promoter Frank Maloney for Lindsay’s first defence against Jamie Arthur of Wales.
Munroe is the top draw
SECONDS OUT: Boxing: Professional and Amateur 17/11/09EBU super-bantamweight champion Rendall Munroe is the top-of-the-card draw for Friday’s live Sky Sports coverage of championship boxing from Nottingham where he defends the European title against Sardinia’s Simone...
Acosta tops bill
SECONDS OUT: Boxing: Professional and Amateur 17/11/09ALEXEI Acosta (right), the Irish-based 8-0 Cuban bantam, headlines at Belfast’s Holiday Inn on Friday night, but not for the WBA’s inter-continental title as hoped. Promoter Alan Wilton said that visa problems forced a switch of focus for Acosta to an eight-rounder against England’s Sean Hughes.
‘Pretty Boy’ next up for Pacquiao says Roach
Boxing 16/11/09Trainer Freddie Roach has put Floyd Mayweather Jr firmly in his sights as the next opponent for his victorious charge Manny Pacquiao. Pacquiao (50-3-2, 38 KOs) cemented his claim to be the best pound-for-pound fighter on the planet when he stopped...
Victorious Lee saved by the bell
Boxing 16/11/09ANDY Lee’s prospects of securing a shot at the European middleweight title were saved by the bell to a 10-round international contest against French champion Affif Belghecham on Saturday night at Limerick’s University Sports Arena.
Cotto ready for the Pac attack
Boxing 14/11/09Miguel Cotto will step into the ring tonight determined not to become another footnote in Manny Pacquiao’s rise to boxing superstardom.
The WBO welterweight champion from Puerto Rico will have more than his title on the line when he faces Pacquiao (49-3-2, 37 KOs) at the MGM Grand Garden Arena.
Lee expecting a busy evening
Boxing 14/11/09ANDY Lee is based more than 3,000 miles from the Euro zone in the old US motor industry capital of Detroit, but the WBA
world-ranked number 13 middleweight aims tonight to take a step closer to earning challenge rights for a European title fight.
Super Sean brings end to Kelly bid
Boxing 13/11/09KEADY’S Sean Duffy secured the
light-welterweight title at last night’s
Ulster Intermediate Championship’s at Donegal Celtic social club with a superb performance against Paul Kelly.
Cummings tipped to continue hot form
Boxing 12/11/09HOLY Trinity’s Conrad Cummings will seek to continue his
impressive run of form in tonight’s middleweight final at the Ulster Intermediate Championships. Cummings takes on Denis O’Donnell at Donegal Celtic Football Club, having scored stoppage wins at the quarter and semi-final stages.
Seconds Out - Left Hooks
Boxing 10/11/09HOLY Trinity middleweight Conrad Cummings (right) hopes to cap a remarkable year with an Ulster Intermediate title on Thursday night. The former Clonoe ABC man meets Denis O’Donnell in the 75kg final after impressive stoppage wins at the quarter and semi-final stages.
St Paul’s will make a real fist of things
Seconds Out 10/11/09FORMER British super-middleweight champion Brian Magee was the guest of honour at the official opening of St Paul’s ABC, Belfast last Saturday night. The Shaw’s Road club opened its doors to the public for the first time with 15 cracking amateur bouts providing a...
Duffy knows how to salvage final victory
Seconds Out 10/11/09IT makes sense that a lad who hopes to make a living repairing damaged cars – breathing life back into what others might write off – can summon the heart to salvage victory even when he isn’t firing on all cylinders.
Brian wants Euro title something rotten in Denmark
Seconds Out 10/11/09HOT on the stylish southpaw heels of European glory for 19-0 light-welterweight star Paul McCloskey, the EBU has approved a title fight at super-middleweight for Brian Magee on January 30 at Aarhus in Denmark. The 34-year-old former British and IBO champion has secured a match with Mads Larsen.
Wembley date on cards for Hayemaker
Seconds Out 10/11/09David Haye wants a Wembley Stadium appointment with either Los Angeles-based ‘Dr Ironfist’, WBC champion Vitali Klitschko, or his younger Kiev-based brother, ‘Dr Steelhammer’, the IBF and WBO titles holder Wladimir, in the summer or autumn of 2010.
Seconds Out - Right Leads
Boxing 10/11/09Two superstars rated one and seven in Ring magazine’s latest pound-for-pound rankings, Manny Pacquiao (right) and Miguel Cotto, clash in Las Vegas in the early hours of Sunday in a much-anticipated face-off for Puerto Rican Cotto’s WBO world welterweight title.
Haye ready for world after he passes Nuremberg trial
Boxing 09/11/09David Haye has vowed to “clean up” in the heavyweight division and unify the titles after ripping the WBA belt from the waist of Russian giant Nikolai Valuev. In only his second fight as a fully-fledged heavyweight, the Englishman produced a technically sublime performance...
McCloskey makes history in front of home crowd to land Euro title
Boxing 07/11/09
PAUL ‘Dudey’ McCloskey nailed the European crown with a ninth round KO, a spectacular finish after twice flooring Spanish champion Daniel Rasilla, but he promises there is much better ahead for 2010.
Brave Rogie quits on his stool
Sexton’s on fire 07/11/09MARTIN Rogan threw everything he had at Sam Sexton in a vain attempt to regain his Commonwealth Heavyweight title at the Odyssey Arena last night.
Sweet Pea tastes good
Boxing 07/11/09KEVIN O’Hara returned to winning ways with an impressive points win over Londoner Mickey Caveney at super-featherweight in the Rogan/Sexton undercard.
Stylish Lindsay keeps unbeaten record
Boxing 07/11/09British featherweight champion Martin Lindsay turned in a stylish eight rounds to outclass African warrior Alfred Tetteh for a 15th in-a-row win.
Different approach has Rogie confident
Commonwealth Heavyweight Championship title Sam Sexton, Norwich (12-1, holder) v Martin Rogan, Belfast (12-1) (Odyssey Arena, Belfast, tonight, live on Sky Sports 1, 11pm approximately) 06/11/09WITH more sub-plots and edgy twists since they parted company in May on unsatisfactory terms, the follow-up to Sam Sexton’s controversial Commonwealth title win promises to be a rip-roaring sequel when Martin Rogan seeks the belt back...
O’Hara in tune up
The Odyssey undercard 06/11/09A game effort but disappointing result was Kevin O’Hara’s lot after the highly-rated British super-featherweight contender last fought, at Bellahouston in Glasgow, in June for the Commonwealth title.
Duffy shows his strength in terrific bout
Boxing: Ulster Intermediate Championships 06/11/09THE Rocky III anthem soundtrack, Survivor’s Eye of the Tiger, provided the scene-setter for the fans to introduce last season’s Commonwealth Youth Games silver medallist Sean Duffy and long time rival Jamie Kennedy, a former Irish Cadet champion.
Frampton Hungary
The Meadowbank undercard 06/11/09He is tipped for the top by his manager Barry McGuigan and so far it’s been so good for heavy-handed Belfast super-bantam Carl Frampton. Two fights, two wins, firstly by early TKO in Liverpool..
‘Dudey’ won’t lose: Nash
Boxing 05/11/09CHARLIE Nash, who 30 years ago became the first, and so far only, Derry boxer to win a European title on home turf, believes tomorrow night’s the night his legacy will be emulated by Paul McCloskey.
Haye vows to ‘walk the walk’ against Valuev
Boxing 05/11/09DAVID Haye has vowed to “walk the walk” when the talking stops and the fighting starts against Nikolai Valuev on Saturday.
Somersby set for success
Red Hand... top tips from the track, from our man on the inside 04/11/09Somersby is taken to make a sizeable splash on his chasing debut at Warwick this afternoon.
Henrietta Knight always seems to unearth a classy type and this scopey five-year-old could be the latest to add to the list.
Sharp Duffy into semis
Boxing: Ulster Intermediate Championships 04/11/09Keady’s Sean Duffy won the feature contest at last night’s Ulster Intermediate quarter-finals at Donegal Celtic Social Club.
Duffy and his light-welter opponent James Upton had highlighted their credentials with impressive...
Rogie delivers his lunchtime special
Boxing 04/11/09Martin Rogan shivered over a steaming hot cup of tea at Caffe Nero with only one slight concern on his mind ahead of Friday’s Belfast blockbuster sequel.
The big time beckons at last for Davy-come-lately
Seconds Out 03/11/09TWENTY-five years after trying on a pair of boxing gloves for the first time as an eager eight-year-old, David Hanna will take his first steps into the professional...
Left Hooks
Seconds Out 03/11/09The Cuan Mhuire Sacred Heart Boxing Club, Newry hosted a strong team from West Midlands, England, who got a rousing reception from a full house in Crossmaglen Rangers Social Club.
Clonoe do club proud in Guernsey
Seconds Out 03/11/09A strong Clonoe Select battled hard to secure an 8-8 club international draw at the Beau Sejour Leisure Centre in Guernsey. “It was a great tournament, the place was stuffed to the rafters.
Dudey set for action in his own backyard
Seconds Out 03/11/09Paul McCloskey believes he can do on Friday night what no Irish boxer has done from the time
Finland’s Ollie Maki claimed the first European Boxing...
Rogan’s roadshow to hit the shops
Seconds Out 03/11/09Martin Rogan’s publicity bandwagon will roll, bob and weave into the £400m Victoria Square complex this morning where ‘The Entertainer’ is set to make it a shopping experience...
RIGHT Leads
Seconds Out 03/11/09Andy Lee’s prospects of securing future chances at European and World Championship title levels face a stern test of middleweight credentials on November 14 at the University Arena in Limerick, says his promoter Brian Peters.
James Up to the job
Amateur boxing: Ulster Intermediate Championships 03/11/09SMOOTH James Upton lit up last night’s Ulster’s Intermediate Championships with a classy display of
counter-punching that had trainer Gerry Storey purring afterwards.
Three the magic number for Trinity
Boxing: Irish U21 Championships 02/11/09Belfast’s Holy Trinity club were celebrating a treble at the weekend after Ruairi Dalton, Mark O’Hara and David Walsh claimed a hat-trick of titles at the Irish U21 Championships at the National Stadium in Dublin.
FIGHTING TALK
Boxing 02/11/09BEFORE he takes his seat, Steve Bunce glances around the empty corners of The Dockers Club in Belfast. He’s the star attraction of his own talk show, but things aren’t going very well.
Ulster’s finest hunting medals
Boxing: National U21 Championship finals 30/10/09Belfast boxing is assured of at least three title honours from tonight’s Irish Under 21 Championships at the National Stadium in Dublin (7.30pm start)
Belfast boxers hoping to strike gold in finals
Seconds Out 27/10/09Belfast boxing is strongly represented in this
Friday’s National U21 Championships, with 10 contenders for Irish gold.
McKeown set to top bill in Cross
Seconds Out 27/10/09Crossmaglen Rangers Social Club plays host to a top rank club international on Friday night, with Sacred Heart, Newry taking on a tough East Midlands Select (8pm start).
Pro stars and big city clash open St Paul’s
Seconds Out 27/10/09A cracking Dublin against Belfast club international marks the official opening of the newest club on the Antrim board circuit.
Carrick is heating up
Seconds Out 27/10/09The second Cage Contender show of 2009 rolls into Carrickfergus on Saturday, November 14.
Larkin remains in mix for title
Seconds Out 27/10/09Sacred Heart, Belfast coaches got a bit of a shock when they read The Irish News results’ section yesterday.
Weigh-ins for Ulster
Seconds Out 27/10/09The Ulster Intermediate Championships get underway this weekend, with the weigh-ins set for Sunday, from 10am to 11am, at the following venues: St Agnes’ ABC, Belfast, Clonoe ABC, Coalisland and the Ring ABC in Derry.
Rinty may make hall of fame
Seconds Out 27/10/09In this, the 60th anniversary of Rinty Monaghan’s final active year as the undefeated, undisputed World, European, British and Empire flyweight champion, the legendary Belfast fighter of the 1940s is again one of the 45 short-listed for consideration to be inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame.
McGuigan tipping Frampton for title
Seconds Out 27/10/09Carl Frampton is capable of delivering the kind of KO power that his manager, former WBA featherweight champion Barry McGuigan, reckons will make the Belfast boxer a sensational hit.
Right Leads
Seconds Out - Right Leads 27/10/09Ryan Rhodes’ seventh round stoppage of champion Jamie Moore for the European
light-middleweight title at Bolton Arena was overshadowed by a life-threatening injury later in the bill to Doncaster boxer Jason Rushton
