CALLUM WALSH PRODUCED a stunning performance to knock out Mexican veteran Carlos Ortiz and set up a homecoming fight later this year.
The Cobh super welterweight put the 39-year-old on the floor with a right hook in the first round and then dropped him with a left during their bout in the early hours of the morning in California.
It was the third knockdown, one minute and 50 seconds into the second round, that led to referee Jack Reiss ending the fight.
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Walsh’s record now stands at 11-0 with nine KOs and the 23-year-old, who is trained by Freddie Roche and backed by UFC president Dana White, will now likely have his first fight outside of the United States later this autumn.
A good manager. Great season Aston villa are having.
A great ebening for Villa fans. Manager of the year in my opinion.
@Ronnie Pickering: he has brought Villa back to the big guys table. Without the laundering.
@Ronnie Pickering: see what you did there
Funny how he was made a scapegoat and laughed out of it at Arsenal and made to look like an absolute fool… Most of the people who slagged him off and said he was useless then are probably saying he’s manager if the year now. A really good proven coach before and now after Arsenal. Just because it doesn’t work at a certain club doesn’t make you you bad manager. Movyes at Utd rings a bell too. Uefa conference winner. Ironic how Utd will most likely be in that competition next season.
@robert kelly: Another article that has nothing to do with Man Utd but someone manages to shoehorn them into the conversation. They are just never far from peoples thoughts.
@David Staed: because they make everyone laugh
@David Staed: I was making a point comparing managerial appointments and the similar situations of Unai Emery and David Moyes that were treated terribly and used as scapegoats which ultimately nearly ended each of their careers but in turn went on to be successful elsewhere… No more no less. Thanks Dave good man
A brilliant manager. A real tactician.
I was thinking of putting on a Spanish accent while giving my team talk Sunday morning, I wonder would it work?