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Classic Irish Boxing- 2005 Kevin McBride beats Mike Tyson and shocks the world

June 2005 by Tomas Rohan Kevin McBride ended the career of Mike Tyson in Washington tonight with a stunning win

Tommy McCarthy could join a special continental catalogue of fighters tonight. ‘The Mac Attack’ takes on Belgian Bilal Laggoune for

By Cian Manning Michael Lacey was born at Grady’s Yard, Johnstown in Waterford City on the 21st June 1913. Named

He debuts off the beaten boxing track in Poland, but Tiernan Bradley is planning a performance worthy of the brightest

It’s been called ‘the greatest female fight of all time’. Katie Taylor and Delfine Persoon served up 10 rounds

Amsterdam 1928 The Irish Athletic Boxing Association, then the Irish Amateur Boxing Association, informed the media that they had ratified

By Bernard O’Neill Hugh Russell wrote another illustrious page in the history of Irish boxing at the 1980 Olympic Games

By Bernard O’Neill Irish boxing has won seven medals at the first two European Games. Katie Taylor and Michael O’Reilly

By Bernard O’Neill Ireland has won 22 medals at the World Men’s and Women’s Youth Championships since Eamonn Loughran and

Irish Olympic legend Paddy Barnes surprised when revealing the sporting success that mattered the most to him. The Belfast fighter,