Brave CF marketing department are using some novel means of promoting their July London event. See Below. Brave Press Release World-class coach John Kavanagh will be in London to oversee the final preparations and perform corner duties to a few of his finest athletes at BRAVE 24: London, on July 25th, an exclusive show, with…
One of the many inconveniences of working at night is the sleep patterns. The nights you work aren’t the problem, it’s the nights you don’t that cause the trouble. Last night was one such night for me. Two attempts to hit the hay failed miserably and so I got up at about 5:30. Non- smokers…
It’s great to see professional boxing back in the Neptune Stadium and Cork this summer. Leeside Revolution debuts this July 20th with a card that is an intriguing mix of professional Boxing and Muay Thai fights. Leeside Revolution is the brain-child of Martin Horgan of Siam Warriors in Cork. Martin is no stranger to putting…
Christopher Walker is the general manager of Treacy’s Hotel in Carrickmacross. He sounds exactly as you might expect a manager of a buzzing and bustling hotel to sound like. Pleasant, professional and with the slightly breathy responses of a man who probably has a million and one other things to do than talk to me….
A recent headline caught my attention. It was the tragic accident and subsequent death of Manus Kelly at the Donegal International Rally about 10 days ago. Mr Kelly was an experienced and well respected rally driver, not to mention a 3 time winner of the Donegal event. Manus Kelly was also a recently elected Fianna…
By and large Kugan Cassius has a lot to be pleased about. In the boxing world, his brain-child IFL TV is doing great business at the boxing Box Office. The box office being clicks on the IFL Youtube channel. I remember when he started this enterprise about 7 or 8 years ago, many in the…
2019 EUROPEAN OPEN – MEDAL TABLE EUROPEAN JUNIORS MEDALS EUROPEAN JUNIORS BREAKDOWN Women’s Jr Strawweight Gold: Anna Gaul (German) Silver: Shannon Troup (UK) Women’s Jr Bantamweight Gold: Milly Horkan (UK) Women’s Jr Lightweight Gold: Izzy Mitchell (UK) Men’s Jr Strawweight Gold: Zagirhan Ibragimov (Russia) Yerulan Kabdulov (Kazakhstan) Men’s Jr Flyweight Gold: Akhmed Nutsalkhanov…
Paulie Malignaggi for the most part managed to turn this contest into a boxing match. As a result the fight was not much of a spectacle for the audience or an advertisement for the Bare Knuckle brand. Despite avoiding danger for the most part and fighting on the outside, it still wasn’t enough to give…
The European MMA Championships are taking place this week in Rome, Italy. Full results from the first two days of competition are below. Lee Hammond and Adam Darby were among the Irish winners today. RESULTS – DAY 2 – 20/06/2019 CAGE 1 Bout 1: Male Jr Flyweight 56.7 kg (125 lbs) Cristiano Ottaviani (Italy) d e…
IMMAF have released the competition draws for Irish competitors competing tomorrow in Rome. Ireland have 9 athletes competing on the opening day. Irish Cage Legacy fans will also be familiar with Emil Piatek who is competing for his native Poland. In total there are 98 Athletes in action over 49 scheduled bouts on Day One…
The European amateur MMA championships are taking place in Rome this week. Ireland is sending out a 31 strong team to this year’s competition. I caught up with Team Ireland head coach Andy Ryan as he was heading to the airport to meet up with the athletes and coaches before flying out to the Italian…
Tyson Fury finally and fully introduced himself to the US boxing world last night in Las Vegas. This event was about much more than his 2nd round TKO of German heavyweight Tom Schwartz. In the early hours of Sunday morning, Tyson Fury looked, acted and performed like the best Heavyweight boxer in the world. His…