IRELAND’S TWO-TIME Olympic medallist Paddy Barnes will make his professional boxing debut in Belfast next month.
Promoter Frank Warren confirmed that Barnes will feature on the bill at the Titanic Exhibition Centre on 5 November, headlined by Jamie Conlan.
And there will be huge Irish interest in the card with Con Sheehan, Sean ‘Big Sexy’ Turner, Stephen Ormond, Declan Geraghty, Sean Creagh, Gary Sweeney, Marco McCullogh, Tyrone McKenna and Steven Ward all in action.
No opponent has been named yet for Barnes or for Conlan, who is undefeated in 17 pro bouts and eyeing a world title shot in 2017.
“Belfast is always special when it comes to boxing as it is a fight city and the Irish really know their boxing,” Warren said.
“I’m excited to be coming back and with Jamie Conlan never being in a dull fight, excitement is guaranteed.
“Paddy Barnes is something special and it will be an honour to promote his first professional outing after his illustrious amateur career and three Olympic Games which in itself is an incredible achievement.”
The card will be televised live on BoxNation.
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I know this is off topic but agureo is out for 3 months after a muscle tear.
Silva went off injured last night as well. My fantasy football team is falling apart.
Sky says its a month. Aguero is one player who shouldn’t be playing and international football outside of major tournaments.
great news, i lost alot of ground last week in fantasy league!
the Liverpool club and fans get excited far to quickly. he could barely do it in the bundesliga with a world class team so how will he do it with average leftover players in a top league. it really is baffling tbh
Could barely do it?? He won it twice with them..
Another United fan far more interested in what Liverpool are doing than that gobbeam LVG
Gavin Mark doesn’t speak for the United fans, Mark is a pretty stupid individual.
Matt also implies here that Germany is not a top league. Silly Matt.
You can criticise Liverpool while still accepting the reality that their manager has a more than decent record.
Louis Van Gaal also had a bad time at Barcelona the second best team of all time.. For 6 seasons Dortmund were 50/50 with Bayern..
This proves my point , Matt clearly stated yesterday that’s he’s a Chelsea fan but because he winds up the bitters he’s automatically classed as a Manu fan ! Now there’s something familiar about that ……
Which begs the question Cian , if things where so great at dortmund why did all the players choose to leave ?????
Gavin Doyle do you not relies by now that L.van Gaal is a spoofer. :-)
Money?
Money Justin. Where did those players go when they left? Bayern- gotze & lewandowski, Kagawa – Utd, sahin- Liverpool, and the fella whose name I can’t remember went to Real Madrid. All places where the money is much better than Dortmund
Sahin actually went to madrid and from there went on loan to liverpool and back to dortmund then…
Cheers fionn
So in other words it not going to matter what he does or wins at Liverpool cause if someone offers to pay players more money they will leave.
Nucky I didn’t see Matt mention Everton at all
Lvg a spoofer??? Have you seen the state of the Dutch team since he left.
Does it have “I’m the one who klopps” on the back of it!!!!
Matt the troll strikes again. Zzzzzzzzzz.
Do they have PL winners 15/16 on the back , well I’m not getting one then
Poor Danno, you must be devastated. I’m sure United will win a game again soon so you can go back to tipping them for the league, but you might have to wait until after Crystal Place away.
Well if its isn’t ‘ the king of the bitters’ ! Ron better to concentrate on your own teams form …. But do not despair ‘The Clairvoyant One’ has spoken …. He’s not making promises but if he’s still there in 4 yrs he’ll have won the league ….. Will I laugh now ….
Danno try taking your own advice & concentrating on your own team
Danno, the irony of you saying “better to concentrate on your own team” to someone ha ha, try taking your own advice..
It’s even funnier when you say it twice