‘I Want to Fight Every Irish Boxer’ – King of the All Irish Tyrone McKenna Vows to Continue Reign

The King of the All-Irish wants to continue his reign.

Tyrone McKenna is back in significant domestic action when he trades leather with Paddy Donovan in Croke Park on Saturday.

It’s the Belfast boxer’s eight fight against a fellow Irish man, and speaking to Irish-boxing.com he suggested it won’t be his last.

The southpaw, who retired after an Belfast affair with Lewis Croker in 2023, but has since come back, always seems one fight away from hanging them up.

However, victory at Croke Park will open the door to more big fights, and if things don’t go his way, the chance to add Irish names to his record will tempt him to fight.

McKenna believes his willingness to take those fights is something that separates him from many of his contemporaries.

“I have the record of the most Ireland v Ireland dust-ups,” McKenna told Irish-boxing.com.

“A lot of people would be scared to fight another Irish one because there’s a lot of pride at stake.

“I love that pressure. There’s nothing that excites me more than getting paired up against a tough Irish fighter.

“I think a lot of people try to avoid that and try and push it back where they don’t have to fight Irish people and I’m doing the quite opposite.

“I want to fight every Irish person there is.”

McKenna initially used the all Irish to move himself into a position of prominence fighting Sean Creagh in 2016 and Jake Haney soon after.

A big win over Paully Upton open the door to a Jack Catteral fight before he meet fellow entertainer Darragh Foley, Crocker followed before two fast paced war’s with Dylan Moran.

Next up, for the man who also signed to sign Phil Sutcliffe Jr, is Donovan.

“I’m game to fight any Irish man any day,” McKenna added. “I love it. This is my country.”