Before Eric Donovan won his Irish featherweight title against Stephen McAfee last weekend, I asked him why he decided to go back into boxing after walking away from the sport. Donovan was a talented amateur but left the sport he once loved through a mix of injury, personal issues and other options available to him, including […]

7 years ago

Gary ‘Spike’ O’Sullivan is also on the bill

7 years ago

This was a nasty-looking K.O, and we’re sure it didn’t feel too good for the Cork native either. Gary ‘Spike’ O’Sullivan was hoping to tee himself up for a title shot against the winner of Canelo Alvarez and Gennady Golovkin. Instead, he was brutally sparked out by former IBF middleweight champion David Lemieux in the […]

8 years ago

Gary ‘Spike’ O’Sullivan will try and move one step closer to a world title when he faces Canadian middleweight David Lemieux on Saturday evening. O’Sullivan has won his last six fights since losing a WBA Middleweight title eliminator to Chris Eubank Jr. in 2015 and should the 34-year-old prevail over Lemieux this weekend he will […]

8 years ago

Gary ‘Spike’ O’Sullivan’s potential world title fight with middleweight world champion Gennady Golovkin could be in jeoporady after the Kazakh boxer was linked to a fight with unbeaten 21-year-old Jaime Munguia (28-0, 24 KOs). According to ESPN’s lead boxing writer Dan Rafael, Golovkin could now fight the Mexican boxer on May 5 at the MGM […]

8 years ago

Gary ‘Spike’ O’Sullivan moved one step closer to a world title shot on Saturday night after he won the vacant WBO Inter-Continental Middleweight Title with a dominant victory over Antoine Douglas in Laval, Quebec, Canada. O’Sullivan stopped the American in the seventh round with a devastating flurry of punches that sent Douglas crashing to the canvas and […]

8 years ago