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On This Day: September 22nd

2012: In what was then a career-best, break-out, performance, Carl Frampton bullied recent World champion Steve Molitor and forced the

1904: Mayo’s Joe Lydon tied for a bronze medal at the St Louis Olympics. Boxing for the USA, the Swinford

2009: Katie Taylor whitewashed Turk Meryem Aslan Zeybek (11:0) in the final of the European Championships in Nikolayev, Ukraine. In

1989: Sam Storey widely outpointed Londoner Tony Burke to win the British super middleweight title at the Ulster Hall. With

2010: Matthew Macklin retained the European title he had won and relinquished the previous year. Fighting on the ill-fated Magnificent

1934: Jimmy McLarnin, Ireland’s greatest ever fighter, reclaimed his World welterweight title at Madison Square Garden. Barney Ross had taken

1990: Dave Boy McAuley survived four trips to the canvas to retain his IBF flyweight title for a third time

2013: Sligo’s Stephen ‘Block’ Reynolds stopped Downpatrick cruiser Declan Trainor at the Devenish Venue in Belfast in the sixth round

1930: The pound-for-pound greatest Irish boxer of all time, Jimmy McLarnin, knocked out reigning World lightweight champion Al Singer in

2011: Paul McCloskey survived a first round knockdown, and a torrid first few rounds against Breidis Prescott before coming on