Amy Broadhurst And Lisa O’Rourke Overlooked For Final Chance To Qualify For Paris 2024
Amy Broadhurst and Lisa O’Rourke, both former world champions, find their Olympic dreams dashed after the Irish Athletic Boxing Association (IABA) has decided against affording them a final opportunity to qualify for the Paris Olympics. Despite Broadhurst’s glittering amateur career, which includes world, European, and Commonwealth titles won in 2022, the decision has left her devastated and frustrated: “I wouldn’t …
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Ireland to Host Boxing Powerhouse Ukraine in Paris 2024 Olympic Preparation Match
Ireland will host one of the world’s strongest boxing nations, Ukraine, in an international in preparation for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. The event is set to take place in Castlerea, Co. Roscommon, and is the first such Elite international to take place in many years. Ukraine will bring a full squad of Olympic weight boxers to contest against Ireland …
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Seconds Out: Celebrating International Women’s Day with the Mammy of Irish Boxing, Anna Moore
The Mammy of Irish Boxing, so named by Kellie Harrington during the Tokyo Olympics, is being celebrated for her vast contribution to Irish Boxing with a keynote film released to mark International Women’s Day. Anna Moore, of St. Francis Boxing Club, Limerick, joined the Irish Boxing Family in the late 1960s, and was a vital force in the development of …
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Tearful Serrano Met With Boos After Fight Cancelled Before Ring-Walk
Amanda Serrano was booed after her fairytale homecoming fight was cancelled last minute as the fighters were expected to make the ringwalk.
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Confirmed: All we know so far about Taylor vs Cameron III
Taylor vs Cameron III has been in the works since the Bray boxer avenged the Northampton fighter back in November to poise a trilogy for the ages, with the meantime’s speculation mostly populated with where the third instalment might take place. While that particular detail looks to be all but officially ironed out, what has emerged this week is that …
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This latest sucker punch for Taylor’s Croke Park dream could be a detrimental knockdown
Katie Taylor’s Croke Park dream may not come to be realised, with the Government clearing up some recent suggestions that they had engaged in preliminary talks to arrange her trilogy fight with Chantelle Cameron at the historic venue. Speaking at last week’s GAA Annual Report launch, Croke Park Stadium Director Peter McKenna had mentioned that “Matchroom and Brian Peters, Katie’s …
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Aoife O’Rourke takes middleweight gold at 75th Strandja Memorial Tournament
26-year-old Aoife O’Rourke’s Olympic prospects are looking promising after a victory in the middleweight final at the prestigious Strandja Memorial Tournament in Sofia, Bulgaria on Sunday. O’Rourke defeated Thailand’s southpaw Baison Manikon 3-2 to claim the title. Manikon is the reigning Asian U22 champion and was a Tokyo Olympian at welterweight. Aoife O'Rourke (Castlerea BC) wins gold medal in the …
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Aoife O’Rourke avenges Olympic defeat to Li Qian to win Strandja Memorial semi-final
Three years ago China’s Li Qian defeated Aoife O’Rourke by unanimous decision in a last-16 bout at the Tokyo Olympics, ending the younger woman’s run. Triple World medallist Li, who had already won bronze at the Brazil Olympics, went on to win silver. But the tables were turned when double European champion O’Rourke avenged that defeat on Saturday, winning the …
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Katie Taylor vacates World lightweight belt, indicating potential trilogy with Chantelle Cameron
Katie Taylor has vacated her IBF lightweight world title but kept her status as undisputed World super lightweight champion, indicating a potential trilogy fight with Chantelle Cameron. The IBF has directed British fighters Caroline Dubois and Rhiannon Dixon to contest for the vacant lightweight championship. Both women are unbeaten in the professional ranks. Cameron and Taylor have both expressed readiness …
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The Mental Struggles of a Female Boxer: Amy Broadhurst | Dove x Nike
A person’s relationship with their father is often thought of as one that can define the course of their life, and that’s amplified tenfold if you ask boxer Amy Broadhurst. Since she was five years old, her father Tony encouraged her and her brothers into the boxing club, transforming their relationship and bringing it into a whole new dimension, one …
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