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On This Day: August 26th

1995: Ballymena’s Eamonn Loughran stopped Tony Gannarelli of Scottsdale, Arizona, in the sixth round to defend his WBO welterweight title

2007: Bernard Dunne lost his European super bantamweight title, being sensationally knocked out in 86 seconds at the Point Depot.

1958: Belfast lightweight Jim Jordan defeated England’s future British and Commonwealth champion Johnny Cooke to secure silver at the Commonwealth

2008: Four comprehensive wins on the bounce, culminating with a 10:3 win over Britain’s Tony Jeffries, saw Kenny Egan stroll

1958: Richard Hanna and Peter Lavery secured bronze medals at the Commonwealth Games in Wales. Belfast flyweight Lavery outpointed Nigerian

2008: The late Darren Sutherland comfortably defeated Venezuela’s Alfonso Blanco (11:1) to guarantee bronze at the Beijing Olympics. In the

2008: A 21 year old Paddy Barnes guaranteed bronze at the Beijing Olympics with a controlled performance against Poland’s Łukasz

1902: Lisdoonvarna’s George Gardner knocked out the then-undefeated Jack Root in seventeenth round of their fight in Salt Lake City,

2014: A successful week in Sofia ended with Ireland taking home one gold, two silver, and one bronze from the

2015: Joe Ward and Mick Conlan both claimed gold at the European Championships on a brilliant day in Samokov. Conlan,