Boxing

Ken Egan and Con Sheehan have claimed light-heavyweight and super-heavyweight gold following wins in the finals of the Olympic Test Event at the ExCel in London today. Belfast middleweight Conrad Cummings won a  silver medal after he was narrowly defeated in his 75kg final by Russia’s Maxim Koptyakov. Egan was trailing 7-3 to Brazilian light-heavyweight Yamaguchi Florentino

Kenny Egan, Conrad Cummings and Con Sheehan have advanced to Sunday’s finals at the Olympic Test Event following wins at the ExCel in London tonight. Dublin southpaw Egan beat Australia’s Damien Hooper, the 2010 Olympic Youth champion, who is officially ranked number two in the world by AIBA, 15-11 to record his second win at

Irish boxers are ranked in the Top 20 according to the latest released AIBA world rankings. Katie Taylor, Darren O’Neill, Joe Ward, John Joe Nevin, Paddy Barnes, Ray Moylette, Michael Conlan, Ryan Burnett and Eric Donovan are all in the Top 20 in their respective weight categories. Taylor, who has been ranked number one since

Katie Taylor claimed her fifth European lightweight title in a row with a composed victory over Sofya Ochigava at the eighth European Women’s Championships in Rotterdam this evening. The Irish three-time World champion was rarely troubled before being handed a 10-5 decision over the Russian two-time World champion after four two-minute rounds of the 60Kg

Katie Taylor has won her quarter-final at the European Women Boxing Championships following a comprehensive victory over Azerbaijan’s Ayzanat Hajiyeva in Rotterdam today. The Irish lightweight, who was 13-3 up going into the fourth and final round, earned a 17-4 win to claim her third victory in three days at the championships. Taylor will now

Katie Taylor and advanced to the quarter-finals of the 2011 European Women’s Championships after recording a landslide 22-3 win over Italian lightweight Romina Marenda in Rotterdam today. Also through is Ceire Smith who boxes out of the Cavan BC. She produced a stunning fightback , when trailing 8-4 versus 2010 European bronze medalist Csilla Nemedi in the

Ireland’s John Joe Nevin won a bronze medal in the World Boxing Championships, after suffering a semi-final count-back defeat to England’s Luke Campbell. Nevin and Campbell were tied at 12-12 after three rounds in Baku, Azerbaijan. The Irishman started the fight strongly bu Campbell was content to sit behind his long right jab, picking off Nevin on

The outcome of Friday’s welterweight semi-final between Egidijus Kavaliauskas of Lithuania and Sapiyev Serik of Kazakhstan can influence Ireland’s welterweight Roy Sheehan’s chances of Olympic qualification. Kavaliauskas, who beat Fred Evans of Wales on Thursday, beat Sheehan in the last-16 of the competition. However, if he beats Serik in the semi-finals on Friday then Sheehan will

John Joe Nevin has reached the bantamweight semi-finals of the AIBA World Boxing Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan, however, middleweight Darren O’Neill and flyweight Michael Conlon have bowed out of the competition at the last-eight stage. Nevin, fighting out of Cavan BC, beat Orzubek Shaymov of Uzbekistan to book his spot in the semi-finals. His last-four