On This Day: June 18th
1932: The last ever Irish flyweight title fight. Reigning champion John McGreevy (known as Jackie Quinn [then 11-17-3]) from Pilot
Read More1932: The last ever Irish flyweight title fight. Reigning champion John McGreevy (known as Jackie Quinn [then 11-17-3]) from Pilot
Read More1949: Mullingar’s Maxie McCullagh became the first Irish boxer to win a European gold outside of Ireland when he took
Read More2012: Up on the cards, Andy Lee succumbed to Julio Cesar Chavez Jr in the seventh round of their WBC
Read More1971: Flyweight Neil McLaughlin and bantamweight Mick Dowling won in Madrid to guarantee bronze medals at the European Championships. Following
Read More1982: Future World champion Barry McGuigan defeated Nigerian Young Ali at the World Sporting Club in a fight that had
Read More2003: Light welterweight Paul McCloskey and light heavyweight Ken Egan claimed silver medals at the inaugural EU Championships in Strasbourg.
Read More2010: Belfast’s Paddy Barnes defeated Azeri Elvin Mamishzade (4:1) to claim gold at the European Championships in Moscow. It was
Read More2005: ‘The Clones Collossus’ Kevin McBride shocked the boxing World by defeating and sending Mike Tyson into retirement. Putting his
Read More2005: A 23 year old Kenny Egan won his first of three EU gold medals with a come-from-behind victory in
Read More1897: Two Irish heavyweight World champions (albeit disputed and disregarded) met in the ring. Dundalk’s Tom Sharkey and Galway’s Peter
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