MOVING up from lightweight to light-welterweight is making all the difference for Sean McComb and the Holy Trinity man intends to prove it when he tangles with Bayyynacargy’s Wayne Kelly for the 64kg National Elite title at the National Stadium on Friday. McComb had been plying his trade in the 60kg division, but says the […]
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McComb can’t ‘weight’ to do the business against Kelly
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Irvine hoping experience can help him retain National title
BRENDAN Irvine is hoping the experience of last summer’s Olympic Games can stand him in good stead as he prepares to defend his Irish flyweight title against Mayfield’s Tomas McCarthy at the National Stadium in Dublin on Friday. The St Paul’s man reached Friday’s final thanks to a comprehensive 5-0 win over the man he […]
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Frampton should now come to Cardiff: Selby
LEE Selby has said that a showdown with Carl Frampton for his IBF featherweight title should now take place in Cardiff in the summer after ‘The Jackal’ narrowly lost his WBA belt to Leo Santa Cruz in their rematch at the MGM Grand on Saturday night. Frampton was insistent on Saturday that he wants his next […]
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Frampton and Santa Cruz ready for battle as fans raise the roof at the MGM
THE MGM Grand Garden Arena will feel like a little corner of Belfast tonight when Carl Frampton defends his WBA featherweight title against Leo Santa Cruz. You could have been forgiven for thinking you were in the Odyssey Arena at yesterday’s weigh-in with the thousands of travelling Frampton fans creating a racket and the atmosphere […]
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Frampton’s humble approach has helped him win over the public says Barry
BARRY McGuigan pulls out his phone and shows a picture of him and Carl Frampton. The pair have been snapped together a million and one times, but this is no ordinary photo. It’s from the night at the National Stadium back in 2007 when he first spotted Frampton boxing at the EU Championships and identified […]
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McGuigan predicts Santa Cruz will try to make a fast start
SHANE McGuigan predicts Leo Santa Cruz will try and make a fast start when the Mexican attempts to reclaim the WBA featherweight title from Carl Frampton at the MGM Grand tomorrow night. In their first meeting in Brooklyn back in July last year, it was Frampton who made the much better start, staggering ‘El Terremoto’ […]
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