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On This Day: November 15th

2014: The most recent Matchroom card took place in Ireland, with ‘Return of the Mack’ at the 3Arena in Dublin.

2006: Bernard Dunne solidified his position as a crossover star in Ireland by winning the vacant European super bantamweight title

2000: Coleman Barrett won heavyweight bronze at the World Junior Championships (now known as the World Youths) in Budapest. The

1996: Steve Collins defended his WBO super middleweight World title for a fifth time with a rematch victory over Nigel

1899: Dundalk’s ‘Sailor’ Tom Sharkey challenged for the World heavyweight title at the Conney Island Athletic Club in New York.

2008: The curtain came down on Ireland’s most successful World Youth Championships ever, with the Boys in Green taking home

1998: Wayne McCullough challenged for Prince Naseem Hamed’s WBO featherweight title at the Convention Centre in Atlantic City. The Belfast

2001: Belfast’s Eamonn Magee overcame awkward South African Matthews Zulu to defend his Commonwealth light welterweight title for a fourth

2003: Longford’s Michael Gomez rolled back the years to cause a huge shock and defeat British super featherweight champion Alex

1999: Wayne McCullough gave Mexican legend Érik Morales one of the toughest fights of his career in Detroit. The Belfast