Boxing
Late on Saturday night, Limerick boxing sensation Lee Reeves improved his professional boxing record to 5-0 with a fifth round stoppage win over Dominik Csaba Karoly in Ontario Canada. On the undercard for the IBF Intercontinental and NABA Welterweight title fight between Custio Clayton and Johan Perez, Reeves was impressive once more as he dominated…
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Limerick based boxer Paddy Donovan has turned Professional. The 20-year-old Ennis man (who trains out of Our Lady of Lourdes Boxing Club) has signed a deal with American Promoter Top Rank, who feature a number of stellar pros and prospects on their books including Tyson Fury, Carl Frampton and Michael Conlon. It’s understood that former…
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Limerick boxing county board will this Sunday (9th) hold a senior/elite boxing show versus the formidable defence forces team. On the night there will be 9 representative matches and 4 support bouts. The defence forces are in training camps leading to the upcoming world military games and will travel with a very strong team but,…
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Injury saw Graham McCormack denied the chance to box in a big domestic dust-up in December but he will get a second chance in Dublin at the end of the month when the Limerick middleweight faces former sparring partner Jade Karam on Saturday March 30th on Assassin Promotions and Boxing Ireland Promotions ‘Clash of the…
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TG4 to broadcast the IABA Men’s and Women’s Irish National Senior Elite Boxing Finals next Saturday (23 February). There will be much Rathkeale interest with Martin Keenan fighting in the Super Heavyweight final. All 18 Fights will be broadcast Live on YouTube while TG4’s main channel will have live coverage from 8:45pm to 11:05pm The…
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Martin Keenan will contest his 3rd Consecutive Elite Super Heavyweight Final on the trot when he takes on last year’s champ Dean Gardiner at the National Stadium on Saturday. Keenan will face Dean Gardiner in a repeat of last year’s 91+ kg final in which Gardiner game out victorious. Fellow Rathkeale boxer Nell Fox is…
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Two of Limerick’s top Elite amateur boxers will travel to Belgium this week to fight in a huge sporting event in Charleroi on Saturday night 15th December. St Francis boxers Myles Casey and Kevin Sheehy – both of whom have won four national titles each – are no strangers to international competition. Owing to the…
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The prospect of boxing being expelled from the Olympics is a very real possibility following the recent presidential election of Uzbekistan’s Gafur Rakhimov to the top International Boxing Association post. The Uzbek took 86 of the 134 votes to beat off competition from Kazakhstan’s Serik Konakbayev. The International Olympic Committee has stated their concern at his presidential…
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Limerick’s Lee Reeves makes his professional boxing debut this Saturday in Toronto. Reeves will work with Lee Baxter Promotions on the night in his fight against Benito Aburto of Mexico. A former underage champion at national level, 23-year-old welterweight Reeves comes from the Corpus Christi club and will have Declan Fitzgerald in his corner for…
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Kevin Sheehy thrilled a very vocal crowd of over 350 supporters in St John pavilion when the young St Francis heavyweight beat northern opponent Dean Scullion in the headline bout of Sunday’s fight card. The elite boxing event was held in St John’s Pavilion on Sunday afternoon in front of a sell out who certainly…
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