Please see below attachments for details of upcoming AIBA Cut Technician Courses in Russia.

Both courses will be held during the AIBA World Men’s and Women’s Elite Championships in Ekaterinburg and Ulan-Ude in September/October.

 

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Esker All Female BoxCup 2019

With nearly 300 female boxers from 12 countries and competitors from Juvenile to Elite level already registered, this year’s Esker All Female BoxCup 2019 is promising to be the biggest edition yet of one of the premier female only tournaments worldwide.

Entries are limited to 400 boxers due to health and safety, unfortunately. This year’s tournament in October will feature the following awards and recognitions.

8 Best Boxer Belts including the inaugural Olive Keogh Best Overall Boxer Award in recognition of one of Irish boxing’s pioneering women, who sadly passed away earlier this year.

All boxers receive a tournament medal and certificate.

The Paddy Hyland Best Team Cup

2 Esker All Female BoxCup Hall of Fame Awards

Click here for link to the online tournament entry form.

Entries are being continuously updated.

This tournament is IABA approved, full medical cover, IABA officials, two International Rings, onsite merchandise shops, onsite shop, photography/DVD services from Michael Hade Photography, tournament Tshirts available, DJ plus more…

 

 

 

Hughie Russell, pictured, wrote another illustrious page in the history of Irish boxing at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow.

Before Russell’s trip behind the former Iron Curtain, his fellow Belfast fighter, Jim McCourt, claimed lightweight bronze in Tokyo 1964, and Russell, who boxed out of the Holy Family BC, bridged that 16-year gap at the Games officially known as the XX11 Olympiad.

The Irish champion won his quarter-final bout on July 29 (last night 39 years ago) in the Russia capital to guarantee himself at least bronze.

The Ulster flyweight’s path to the last four saw him dispatch Samir Khiniab of Iraq and Emmanuel Mlundwa of Tanzania in the preliminaries and last-16, both wins by way of unanimous (5-0) decisions.

That left Ryon-sik Yo standing between the Irish titlist and the podium. It proved to be a tough one, the Holy Family man earning a split decision (3-2) over the battling North Korean to ensure that an Irish boxer would occupy one of the podiums.

Russell lost out at the semi-final stage to Bulgaria’s eventual gold medallist, Petar Lessov. Both men met up again – outside the ring – 21-years later when Belfast hosted the 2001 AIBA World Men’s Championships, where James Moore claimed Ireland’s only medal (bronze). Lessov was a coach with the Bulgarian team in Belfast.

“I know you hear a lot of glossy stuff about it (the Olympics) but it definitely is the biggest show on Earth, and, as I say to any of the kids that go to the Olympics, it changes your life,” said Russell after claiming Ireland’s sixth Olympic boxing medal since Helsinki 1952.

“I always remember going back down the next day to get my medal and this girl, obviously Russian, behind a counter, and a wee chat that you gave her, and she flicked through all these medals, and she gave you your medal, and you took it out and there was your medal. Your name was on it.”

Barry McGuigan KO’d Issack Mabushi of Tanzania in his opener in Moscow, but was then beaten by Winfred Kabunda of Zambia – who was defeated by the eventual gold medallist (Rudi Fink, East Germany) in the next round.

McGuigan broke his hand in the lead up to the Games and admitted that the injury had not healed up fully and that he was having difficulty with his timing and accuracy in Moscow. The Kabunda reversal was only his third loss in the senior ranks.

Five years after his trip to the 1980 Games, McGuigan claimed the WBA World featherweight title on a glorious night at Loftus Road in London.

Russell’s Irish team-mate Gerry Hawkins received a bye from the first phase in Moscow but then lost  his first fight to Bulgaria’s Ismail Moustafov, who would go on to win bronze in the light-flyweight class.

Two-time European medallist, Phil Sutcliffe, who also had to contend with hand injuries and fight through the pain barrier in Moscow, also lost his first bout, the Dubliner dropping a points decision to Mexican bantamweight Daniel Zaragoza.

Zaragoza, nicknamed “Mouse”, didn’t medal at the 1980 Olympics, but he certainly made an impression in the pro ranks, winning three WBC World bantamweight and super-bantamweight titles between 1985/92.

“I used to attract future world champions like a magnet in the draw!” said Sutcliffe.

The Dubliner wasn’t exaggerating with that claim as he lost to Italy’s Maurizio at the 1984 Games. in Los Angeles. Maurizio not only won gold in LA but he also claimed a world pro title.

Meanwhile, Sean Doyle, trading leather in the lightweight class at the Olympski Sports Complex Stadium, KO’d Nelson Trujillo Trujillo of Venezuela but was then beaten by Romania’s Florian Livadaru, while Martin Brereton went out to an eventual bronze medallist, Jose Aguilar of Cuba.

PJ Davitt, the second Phoenix BC boxer to represent Ireland at an Olympiad, was beaten by Ionel Budusan of Romania.

Cuba won an astonishing 10 medals (six of which were gold) from the eleven weight categories to command top spot in the medals table in Moscow. The USSR, despite having home advantage, finished second.

Ireland, thanks to Russell, finished in joint 12th spot in the medals table with Czechslovakia, Great Britain, Guyana and North Korea.

Ireland’s David Wilkins and James Wilkinson, competing in the Flying Dutchman Class (sailing), won silver in Moscow.

The USA did not enter the 1980 Olympics because of Cold War politics.

The Soviet Union, along with Cuba and a host of other Eastern Bloc countries, returned the “compliment” and didn’t attend the 1984 Los Angeles Games.

 

Irish Boxing at the 1980 Olympics in Moscow

Light-flyweight: Gerry Hawkins (Holy Trinity)
Lost to eventual bronze medallist Ismail Moustafov (Bulgaria) 0-5

Flyweight: Hughie Russell (Holy Family) – Bronze
Beat Samir Khiniab (Iraq) 5-0
Beat Emmanuel Mlundwa (Tanzania) 5-0
Beat Ryon-sik Yo (North Korea) 3-2
Lost to eventual gold medalist Petar Lessov (Bulgaria) 0-5

Bantamweight: Phil Sutcliffe (Drimnagh)
Lost to Daniel Zaragoza (Mexico) 0-5

Featherweight: Barry McGuigan (Smithboro)
Beat Issack Mabushi (Tanzania) TKO3
Lost to Winfred Kabunda (Zambia) 1-4

Lightweight: Sean Doyle (St Joseph’s)
Beat Nelson Trujillo (Venezuela) TKO2
Lost to Florian Livadaru (Romania) TKO2

Light-welterweight: Martin Brereton (Edenderry)
Lost to Jose Aguilar (Cuba) TKO1

Welterweight: PJ Davitt (Phoenix)
Lost to Ionel Budusan (Romania) 0-5

 

Former World champion Carl Frampton has extended best wishes to Team Ireland and Kyle Smith ahead of the opening bell for the 2019 European Schoolboy/girl Championships in Tbilisi, Georgia next Sunday.

Team Ireland finished up their training camp at the Clann Naofa BC in Dundalk yesterday and leave from the Georgian capital on Thursday.

“All the best kid, do the business,” said Frampton who claimed silver for Ireland at the inaugural European Schoolboy Championships in Rome in 2003. “I’m right behind you – good luck.”

Frampton’s podium finish secured one of 101 medals for Ireland in 16 years of European Schoolboy/girl boxing.

“Carl’s a big hero to all the young lads, so it was lovely for him to do that for Kyle,” Holy Trinity coach Michael Hawkins told today’s Irish News.

“He’s promised to come down to the club some time after his next fight and meet the lads, so we’ll hopefully run a wee show and have a really good night.

“But, from Kyle’s point of view, this is a great opportunity in his first major international competition. He’s ready for it, and the wee lad is just mad about boxing -he absolutely loves it, but he’s very good at school as well. He’s very sporty, real all-rounder

(Images of the Irish squad at their training camp at the Clann Naofa BC yesterday)

 

Team Ireland have named their captains and vice-captains for the European Schoolboy/girl Championships in Tbilisi, Georgia.

Roy Farrelly-Colgan and Georgia Dunne-McGovern will skipper the boys and girls squads and Thomas Ward and Ava Rose Henry-Lyndon have been named vice-captains.

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The 32-strong squad finished up a five-day training camp at the Clann Naofa BC this afternoon.

Irish team managers Stephen Connolly and Jennifer O’Sullivan said that the boys and girls in green are in top shape and hailed the facilities at the Clann Naofa club and camp in the build-up to the tournament.

Team Ireland leave for Tbilisi on Thursday from Dublin Airport (4.30pm).

31 nations are expected to compete at the 17th edition of the Europeans.

Boxing begins on Sunday in the Georgian capital.

(Image – Irish squad in training camp)

 

2019 European Schoolboy/girl Championships Tbilisi, Georgia (August 2/12)

Irish squad

Male

38.5kg Kai Ducque Griffin (Drimnagh)
40kg Roy Farrelly Colgan (Avona) Captain
41.5kg Sean Tyndall (Dublin Docklands)
43kg Kyle Thomas Smith (Holy Trinity)
44.5kg Malo Kemel Fekkar Davis (Monkstown Dublin)
46kg Blaine Fitzgerald (Corinthians)
48kg Padraig Flynn Stapleton (Monkstown Dublin)
50kg James O’Reilly Thornhill (Togher)
52kg Lee McEvoy (Avona)
54kg Cole Byrne (Enniskerry)
56kg Laurence Connors (St Mary’s Dublin)
59kg Patrick Stokes (St Johns Derry)
62kg Micheal McCarthy (Urlingford)
68kg Thomas Ward (Carrickmore) Vice Captain
72kg Ryan Collins Murphy (Neilstown)
76kg Caolan Devlin (Mark Heagney)
80kg Bernard Cawley (St Davids Naas)
90kg Adam Olaniyan (Jobstown)
90-105kg Danny O’Brien (Shadows)

Female

34-36kg Carlagh Mullarney (Ballyhaunis)
38kg Caoimhe Kinsella (St Anthony’s Pats)
40kg Shakira McCrudden (Riverside)
42kg Katie O’Keeffe (Kanturk)
44kg Esther Lambe (Setanta)
46kg Carleigh Irving (Illies Golden Gloves)
48kg Nora Jackman (Paulstown)
51kg Georgia Dunne McGovern (Drimnagh) Captain
54kg Niamh Keogh (Olympic Mullingar)
57kg Alicia King (Ratoath Golden Gloves)
60kg Gabrielle Mongan (Whitechurch)
64kg Ava Rose Henry Lyndon (Glin) Vice Captain
70kg Breanna Ryan Tobin (Spartan)

Officials

IABA President: Dominic O’Rourke (St Michaels Athy)

Team Managers: Stephen Connolly (Curragh) & Jennifer O’Sullivan (Sliabh Luachra)

Coaches: Eve Carr (St Michaels Athy),Patrick Gallagher (Maynooth), James O’Neill (Clann Naofa),Martin Donovan (O.L.O.L.),Killian Walsh (Dungarvan), Paul Archbold (St Davids Naas)

Referee/Judge: Martin O’Neill (St Saviours OBA)