‘London Olympics’

The West of Ireland is gearing itself up for further boxing success next month when Mayo's own Henry "The Western Warrior" Coyle takes on Italy's Elio Cotena for the WBF Light Middleweight title at the Royal Theatre, Castlebar on Friday, August 12th.

The West has most definitely been awake where the "sweet science" is concerned recently with Mayo having enjoyed huge success in the amateur ranks. Islandeady native Ray Moylette won Gold at the European seniors in Turkey last month to add to the World Junior title he won in Mexico in 2008.

That followed on from Katie Rowland's Bronze medal at the World Junior Championships in April with the Geesala club woman adding to the Silver she won at last years European Juniors.

While both Moylette and Rowland will have next years London Olympics in their sights their professional counterpart Henry Coyle's sole focus is on next month's clash with Cotena as he bids to lift the WBF title. More...

London’s Marianne ‘Golden Girl’ Marston clearly isn’t prepared to leave anything to chance as she prepares for her showdown with the highly experienced Welsh battler Lana Cooper at the Steve Goodwin promoted ‘It’s Personal’ event at York Hall, Bethnal Green, London on Saturday the 11th September 2010. More...

Following his successful return to International competition at the WBC Night Of Champions in Cardiff, 2008 European Bantamweight Champion Luke Campbell was back in action this past weekend at the Four Nations Challenge in Sheffield.

On Saturday Luke, who convincingly won his Featherweight (57kg) fight by a 11-5 points margin over China’s Jun Tan at the WBC Night Of Champions, continued his winning ways by beating Kazakhstan’s Shulakov Madi by 6 - 4 in the semi final of the Four Nations Challenge. More...