PETER QUEALLY IS a familiar name in Waterford sporting circles, but an SBG welterweight is aiming to make it known for MMA instead of GAA.
The namesake of the retired Munster Championship winning hurler, 29-year-old Dungarvan native Peter Queally now trains in Dublin alongside the likes of Conor McGregor, Cathal Pendred, Paddy Holohan and Aisling Daly.
Queally hopes to join that SBG quartet in the UFC before long, and he’s chasing the dream in South Africa on the books of the ever-expanding EFC (Extreme Fighting Championship) promotion.
EFC might not be familiar to some fans in this part of the world, but they’ve been making massive strides thanks to their impressive production and big arena shows.
Queally, along with coach John Kavanagh, will fly out to South Africa in the coming days for EFC 38 in Durban, where he’ll feature in the co-main event against home favourite Martin van Staden on Saturday, 4 April.
A win will see Queally secure a shot at the EFC welterweight title, and the promotion recently travelled to Ireland to film some of his preparations for this ‘Countdown’ show, which is well worth checking out…
Surely only a matter of time now before it’s BT Thomond Park, BT Ravenhill, etc…
Only a matter of time too before they buy the full premier league package. Next we will see croke park renamed sky sports croke park arena.
If you are going to rename your stadium I guess keeping the original name and sticking the letters BT before is probably the least offensive option….
I’d nearly sponsor the Edinburgh team to not play their home games in Murrayfield! Absolutely dead atmosphere which takes away from the games played there! I can’t explain why it annoys me so much but it does!!
Yea, should be played in a much smaller venue.
Good news for the rabo, we need the Scottish union to be financially secure and able to finance two quality teams to the league to keep things competitive. There’s even talk of a third Scottish club opening in Aberdeen, which would be great.
I don’t care about stadium naming rights,but this nauseating ‘Sponsor X’s values and ethics really align with our own’ PR bullshit is just the worst kind of nonsense.
There was an article in the times last November saying BT were in advanced negotiations with the Irish provinces too over forms of sponsorship like shirts etc. the welsh & Scottish BT deals were mentioned in the sane article. Will be interesting to see if there is an announcement in this regard in the coming weeks.
BT Thomand park?? They can BT feck off!!
Great news for Scottish rugby and for the Pro12 to have the finances to keep Glasgow competitive and help to improve Edinburgh. I just hope the long term knock on effect isn’t the devaluing of the Pro12 brand to SKY Sports if/ when it comes time to review the broadcasting agreement, as potentially SKY money could be the making or breaking of the league when it comes to competing with the English and French equivalents.
Fair play to them, I never understand some of the negativity about naming rights. Like when Musgrave park was renamed Irish Independent park the paper got slated rather than praised for supporting the game
I’d prefer Sky across the Leinster jersey than a bankrupt state owned Bank!