Former UFC champion T.J. Dillashaw has accepted a two-year suspension for doping with the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) confirming the ban on Tuesday. USADA says Dillashaw tested positive for recombinant human erythropoietin, a synthetic hormone better known as EPO, with his suspension set to run until 18 January 2021 which would be exactly two years after […]

7 years ago

“Gemma am I 16-0 or 17-0?” That’s the question IBF Inter-Continental Super Featherweight champion Jono Carroll asked his fiancée while trying to remember just how many wins he’s racked up in the last four years. Carroll and his partner Gemma Baggett moved to Marbella last year after previously spending time in both Australia and Dunshauglin, Co. […]

8 years ago

“Tea or coffee?” Craig O’Brien, Gary ‘Spike’ O’Sullivan’s main training partner asks me at the back of a Centra store in Corduff. O’Brien and O’Sullivan have come to meet me below their Celtic Warrior Gym to discuss how a world title fight with middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin fell through for Spike when he was the […]

8 years ago

“I really want to win this fight,” Gary ‘Spike’ O’Sullivan tells me as his teammate Niall Kennedy hits pads with Paschal Collins in the ring behind us. “I really want to win. This is the hardest I’ve ever trained for a fight, and I know a lot of fighters say that, but I have never […]

8 years ago

English author Terry Pratchett will be best remembered for his work as a fantasy novelist, and for his services to literature, but like all great writers, Pratchett had this natural ability to touch on many different topics through a limited amount of words. ‘Build a man a fire, and he’ll be warm for a day. […]

8 years ago