Team Ireland head coach Billy Walsh has stressed the importance of a positive start at the inaugural European Games in Baku, Azerbaijan tomorrow. The 12-strong Irish squad, which includes Olympic champion Katie Taylor, weigh-in in Baku between 7.0 and 9.0 local time this morning. The draw will be held after the weigh-in, with men’s boxing […]
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London 2012 lightweight gold medallist Katie Taylor has been selected as Team Ireland’s flag bearer for the opening ceremony for the first European Games in Baku, Azerbaijan. The five-time world champion will lead out the Ireland squad in the inaugural continental games at the at the 63,000 capacity Olympic Stadium in the Azeri capital. Taylor, an athlete Ambassador for
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Irish athletes continue to arrive in Baku and are settling into the Athlete Village. Katie Taylor arrived in with her father and coach Peter Taylor. They were joined by Triathlon’s Russell White and Aaron O’Brien and Karate’s Karen Dolphin.This afternoon Irish Boxing Team performance coaches, Billy Walsh, Zaur Antia and Gerry Storey entered Team Ireland HQ
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Olympic gold medallist and five-time world champion Katie Taylor plans to make history at Baku 2015 Ireland’s Olympic champion boxer Katie Taylor has revealed her plans to make history at Baku 2015 in a video created for the Baku 2015 European Games website. Miss Taylor is the most decorated athlete in the history of women’s
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Katie Taylor will be testing a niggling injury to her wrist this weekend ahead of next month’s inaugural European Games in Baku, Azerbaijan. The Olympic lightweight champion will meet Swedish pair Agnes Alexiusson at the Ballywaltrim Community Centre, followed by Pernila Gustavsson on a Trojan BC. The double header will be the Bray BC orthodox’s first competitive fights
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Michael Conlan and Paddy Barnes qualified for the Rio 2016 Olympics following a tense and dramatic night for Irish boxing in the World Series of Boxing (WSB) in Maiquetía, Venezuela in the early hours of this morning. Barnes beat Finol Rivas on a split decision (49-45,49-45, 47-48) in the light-fly class in to book his
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The battle for the one Olympic place in the World Series of Boxing light-fly class is now a two-horse race between Ireland’s Paddy Barnes and Uzbekistan’s Hasanboy Dusmatov. Joselito Valazquez was in action in his last WSB fight of the regular season this morning (Irish time) in China needing to earn a maximum of five
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Paddy Barnes is well placed to gain a place at a third successive Olympiad from his last World Series of Boxing (WSB) fights in Venezuela on April 18. The top ranked light-fly at the end of the regular WSB next month will qualify for Rio 2016. Barnes is currently in pole position on 30 points after
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Paddy Barnes and Michael Conlan scored two emphatic victories for Italia Thunder versus the USA Knockouts in Roseto Degli Abruzzi in the World Series of Boxing (WSB) at the weekend. Barnes had his hand raised in victory after the expense of Melik Elliston after his corner threw in the towel late in the fourth round in Italy.
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The Irish light-heavy and lightweight will be in action over six, three minute AIBA Pro Boxing (APB) rounds in Sofia and Astana. Joyce (2-0-1) meets Russian lightweight Dmitry Polyansky in Astana and Ward (2-0-1) faces Bulgarian light-heavy Spas Genov in Sofia. Tonight’s fights will decide who the Irish pair meet in their next two APB bouts,
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The IABA have released their preview for the 2015 National Elite Championship Finals – Friday, 23rdJanuary 2014 K.O @7.30pm -in the National Stadium, Dublin. IABA Preview The stage is set for Ireland’s most prestigious amateur boxing event of the year, the 2015 National Elite Championship Finals which are set to take place
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Katie Taylor and the Irish squad of Michaela Walsh, Joanne Lambe and Claire Grace received the red carpet treatment at Dublin Airport this afternoon after the long trip home from the AIBA World Women’s Elite Championships in Jeju, South Korea. Taylor matched Indian legend Mary Kom in Jeju after claiming her fifth consecutive lightweight title.
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