On This Day: June 29th
2013: Two-time European champion Matthew Macklin was stopped early by Kazakh king Gennady Golovkin in a WBA middleweight World title
Read More2013: Two-time European champion Matthew Macklin was stopped early by Kazakh king Gennady Golovkin in a WBA middleweight World title
Read More1939: Derry legend Spider Kelly lost his British and Commonwealth featherweight titles in his first defence against Manchester’s Johnny Cusick
Read More1979: Derry’s Charlie Nash outpointed Frenchman Andre Holyk over twelve rounds to win the vacant European lightweight title in front
Read More2010: John Duddy took on Julio Cesar Chavez Jr at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas. The PPV stadium bout,
Read More2011: Matthew Macklin was controversially denied a World title in Cologne, Germany. The Tipperary Tornado took on champ Felix Sturm
Read More2011: Joe Ward and Ray Moylette claimed gold at the European Championships in Ankara, Turkey. Ward, just 17 at the
Read More1986: Barry McGuigan lost his WBA featherweight World title on a scorcher of an afternoon against the unheralded Steve Cruz
Read More2008: A glorious day in Poland saw Ireland claim six medals in the finals of the European Union championships. and
Read More2009 The final day of perhaps the most successful tournament Irish boxers have ever been involved in. At the EU
Read More1967: Young John McCormack defeated Welshman Eddie Avoth to win the vacant British light heavyweight title. The Dubliner, of Sean
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