Two years ago, Bernard Dunne was reeling after a thunderous KO loss to Spaniard Kiko Martinez within the first three minutes. His European title had been carted off to Spain by a huge underdog, and Dunne was facing the kind of criticism of his chin that Amir Khan can sympathise with. Fast forward two years, and Martinez is title-less after two defeats to Munroe, and Dunne took his chance to jump the queue, winning the WBA Super Bantam title with a spectacular KO win over Ricardo Cordoba.
A lot of criticism was answered in that win as Dunne came back from being on the floor twice in the fifth round to finish Cordoba off in the 11th. Though his chin is still suspect, at least he's shown he can come off the floor and regain his composure as he failed to do against Martinez.
Saturday night sees him take on Thai contender Kratingdaengym, whose only loss came to Wladimir Sidorenko for the bantamweight title, and holds a win over Dunne's last victim Cordoba at that weight. As with many Thai fighters, Krat's record is boosted by many fighters who really shouldn't have been in with him. Having never seen him fight, his record suggests that he isn't a huge puncher, but will have been a tidy boxer to get the nod over Cordoba.
Either way, should be interesting to see how he deals with the partisan Irish crowd, and whether he can get his hands on a world title at the second time of asking. And if that isn't temptation enough to make the evening interesting, the (contraversially) undefeated Tyson Fury is keeping busy with another appearance barely a fortnight after he won the English heavyweight title against McDermott.
And if you're interested, there'll be a webcast from the RTE website from 9.30pm UK time.
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