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2014: Behind on the scorecards, Andy Lee caught Russian Matt Korobov with a right hook in the sixth round of

1956: Dublin welterweight Fred Tiedt guaranteed silver at the Melbourne Olympics with a points win over home favourite Kevin Hogarth.

1956: Drogheda’s Tony ‘Socks’ Byrne, captain of the Irish boxing team, won Olympic bronze in Melbourne. The Louth lightweight followed

2015: Tyson Fury ended ten years of Ukrainian dominance in the heavyweight division with a shock win in Duesseldorf. The

2014: Katie Taylor stormed to her fifth and final World Championships gold in Jeju, South Korea.The first Women’s World Championships

2006: Bray’s Katie Taylor won her first of five World Championships golds in New Delhi, India. The Wicklow woman Taylor

2014: Belfast slickster Dee Walsh stopped Nottingham’s Terry Maughan in the second round at the Devenish to claim the Irish

2015: Belfast bantamweight Ryan Burnett won the British title. The North Belfast boxer had recently signed with Eddie Hearn and

1983: Barry McGuigan claimed the vacant European featherweight title to add to his British title won earlier that year. The