Category: Amateur Boxing

USA Boxing to Host the Inaugural Junior World Team – Julie Goldsticker

(JAN 3) USA Boxing will hold the first-ever Junior World Team Open, January 7-11 at the Grand Sierra Resort in Reno, Nev. The event will showcase many of the nation’s top 15 and 16-year-old boxers as the male competitors vie for the opportunity to represent the United States at the 2013 AIBA Junior Men’s World

Boxing: More awards for Katie Taylor as she sets out on the ‘Road to Rio’ – by Michael O’Neill

(DEC 19) Katie Taylor winning  Olympic gold in the ExCeL Arena has been voted Ireland’s most iconic sporting moment of 2012 by a massive 75% of Irish people, according to Pembroke Communications’ 2012 Sports Sentiment Index (SSI). The SSI is a comprehensive 1,000 person nationally representative survey that examines the attitudes of Irish people towards sport, their sporting heroes, participation levels,

Beautiful Brawlers All Female Show

[Press Release / photos by Lupi Gutierrez] On Saturday August 25th at the Pacifica Moose Lodge decorated boxers and champions from 9 – 33 years old came from all over the West Coast to battle it out at the “Beautiful Brawlers II” promoted by Blanca Gutierrez, BabyFace Boxing. Boxer Megan Siordia, former Heavy Weight Champion

Ireland celebrates success of its Olympic Boxers

[by Michael O’Neill] On Monday some 20,000 plus fans celebrated Katie Taylor’s Gold medal in her home town of Bray, in Co. Wicklow , with thousands more attending celebrations for John Joe Nevin in Mullingar and in Belfast for Paddy Barnes and Mick Conlan. Mick Conlan (Bronze) , Katie Taylor (Gold), ‘An Taoiseach’ Enda Kenny,