IRISH FANS WILL be able to tune in live for Aaron McKenna’s fifth professional fight when he takes to the ring in Hollywood on 11 August.
The newly-turned 19-year-old’s Tinsel Town debut will be the first fight shown as part of Golden Boy Promotions’ partnership with Facebook and will be streamed live in broadcast quality from the Avalon Theater.
McKenna’s growing fanbase back home in Ireland will be able to watch his upcoming bout on the Golden Boy Fight Night Facebook page when he takes to the ring in just over three weeks’ time.
In what will likely be his last four-rounder, Monaghan native McKenna [4-0, 3KOs] will raise the curtain for the GBP/Facebook world-title show, which will be headlined by Jesus Rojas’ WBA World featherweight defence against the returning Jo Jo Diaz Jr and will also contain unbeaten hometown favourite Ferdinand ‘Lucky Boy’ Kerobyan.
McKenna’s opponent will be confirmed in the coming days.
‘The Silencer’, still Golden Boy and Ireland’s youngest professional boxer, has accrued three consecutive quick victories in 2018. Two of these stoppages saw his opponent felled before the second bell.
One of The42′s 18 for 18 at the start of this year, the former eight-time Irish underage champion has begun to cultivate quite the reputation on either side of the pond.
Last time out, McKenna impressed ‘Sugar’ Ray Leonard in dispatching journeyman Darel Harris at the boxing icon’s charity fight night in Santa Monica.
Moved to 4-0 tonight after KO in round 3. I want to thank everyone who supports me especially my team @sheersportsmgmt and @GoldenBoyBoxing . Also my sponsors @chefmarcsmealprep @TheCryoZone @GrantWorldwide 🥊☘️👊🏻🇮🇪 pic.twitter.com/fvvmDx9NVj
— Aaron Mc Kenna (@Aaronmckenna99) May 24, 2018
Before signing to Oscar De La Hoya’s professional stable, the six-foot-one Smithborough welterweight suffered just nine defeats in 161 amateur bouts, winning European Schoolboys gold, European Junior silver, and gold at the the Nikolay Pavlyukov Memorial – aka the ‘Mini World Championships.’
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Liverpool are done. Milner, Henderson and Firmino are too old. Mane and Wijnaldum, two of their most consistent players, allowed to leave. Their replacements Thiago and Keith spend more time on the bench than on the pitch. Van Dijk is a good centre halve but his poor form is highlighting the lack of a decent partner for him. As for Salah? He looks like he has one eye on a move out of Anfield. Klopp will need a miracle to turn things around there.
@John Fagan: and the whole squad is burned out as a side affect of klopps high intensity style , same thing happened at dortmund.
@John Fagan: yeah the new guy Keith is really struggling in Manes old position. Good take.
@John Fagan: Didn’t Salah just sign a new contract at Liverpool over the summer? “Too old” Firmino who scored a brace and 3 assists just two weeks ago? Van Dijk’s main CB partner, Matip, is just back from injury. Mane wanted to leave but they signed Diaz who has been pretty prolific so far and Nunez so I’m not sure things are as bleak as you’re saying – and I’m not a Liverpool fan even
@John Fagan: we’ll see come the end of the season just how ‘done’ we are.
@Cathal Jenkinson: first of all Firminos brace and assists were against Bournemouth in a 9-0 hammering. Salah will come good, he’s too good of a player not too. In relation to VVD again he has, for some obvious and some less obvious reasons, been poor but should improve. It’s Midfield and using the high line where pool struggle. Thiago and Keita are injury prone and Henderson getting on. I think they’ll still get too 4 and get out of the group in the CL but that’s about it.
@Damien Leen: indeed we will
@John Fagan: as they where done 2 years ago. It’s great insights you find from opposing supporters.
@Gareth Keenan: Very harsh on Keith.
@Getard Lanslanger: I thought so too!
There’s no doubt Liverpool will bounce back. But the bar they set for themselves was incredible. It was almost 110% in 9 games out of 10. They’ll come back again but can’t see them getting close to city this year. Genuinely think there’s a good race on for 2nd across all the rest. Liverpool favourites but other teams now raising the bar themselves at the right time.
Liverpool s problems were evident long before Napoli game , and if you keep persisting doing the same thing and look for better then it’s called delusion . Keita is injured and all of a sudden he is fit for his country , something in the off field department needs sorting first imo .The high line is great if your mid field first does it’s job and I will include firmino in that department because he drops to bolster it , and the space that this leaves when people don’t work is obvious to all .
Always thought a manager’s job(generic, not just football) was to understand the scope, scale and changing nature of the environment within which they operate and adjust appropriately BEFORE the sh!t hits the fan.
Only a verbal agreement for potter at Chelsea , time to klippity klop down the road to london!!