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Irish Champ Dylan Eagleson targets European success

Dylan Eagleson assures he will be even better if gets selected to represent Ireland at the Under-22 European Championships later this year.

Eagleson was one of a number of young fighters to catch the eye en route to winning an Irish title recently.

The European Youth representative produced an accomplished display to claim the national 54kg title by beating Michael Stokes of St Michael’s, Athy, claiming under-22 success at just 18-years-of-age in the process.

St Paul’s man now sets his sights on Continental success and believes he has room to improve between now and a possible trip to Croatia.

“I had a good first two rounds, the last round I started to tire a bit and he walked me down but I was glad to get the win,” he told Irish-boxing.com.

“I can be better. It’s been a long 2 years out of the ring, so it was good to get the ring rust off,” he adds before revealing the short and long term plans.

“Hopefully I get to the U-22 Europeans and hopefully I’ll go to the Olympics in 2024. There are good boxers at 54kg so it’s gonna’ be hard, gotta’ work hard.”

Jonny Stapleton

Irish-boxing.com contributor for 15 years and editor for the past decade. Have been covering boxing for over 16 years and writing about sports for a living for over 20 years. Former Assistant Sports editor for the Gazette News Paper Group and former Tallaght Voice Sports Editor. Have had work published in publications around the world when working as a freelance journalist. Also co-founder of Junior Sports Media and Leinster Rugby PRO of the Year winner. email: editoririshboxing@gmail.com

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