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Roy Sheehan made it two wins out of two for Ireland at the AIBA World Championships and Olympic qualifiers in Baku, Azerbaijan today. The St Michael’s Athy welterweight came from being 4-3 down at the end of the first to register a 15-10 decision over Carl Hield of the Bahamas.

Michael Conlon got Ireland’s campaign at the 2011 AIBA World Championships and Olympic qualifiers off to a flying start in Baku, Azerbaijan yesterday. The St John Bosco BC (Belfast) flyweight beat 2011 European bronze medalist Alexandr Riscan of Moldova 25-12 in the last-64 of the tournament.

Tommy Murphy, President of the Irish Amateur Boxing Association, believes that Ireland’s ten-man squad have the talent and the experience to secure Olympic places from the 2011 AIBA World Championships in Azerbaijan. The World Championships, which begin in Baku in 20 days time, will also act as the first major …

Following a meeting at the National Stadium in Dublin today the Boxing Council of the Irish Amateur Boxing Association named their Elite squad for the upcoming AIBA World Senior Championships and Olympic qualifiers in Baku, Azerbaijan. Paddy Barnes, Michael Conlon, John Joe Nevin, David Oliver Joyce, Roy Sheehan, Darren O’Neill, …

WBA “regular” champ Gennadyi Golovkin met today with his estranged promoter Universum in a German court. The parties couldn´t come to terms. The court is likely to hand out its ruling sometime in January on this contractual dispute. With this Golovkin´s planned defence of the title December 10 in Berlin …

From WBC President Jose Sulaiman: “I am a friend of Dr. Ching-Kuo Wu, the new President of AIBA (International Amateur Boxing Association), and have a lot of respect for him and his principles of honesty, integrity and impartiality, as well as his striving for the best in his organization.