Talented youngster has relocated to Lanzarote to train full-time

Leeside legend trained a succession of winners in Sunnyside club

Restrictions could continue for indoor sport throughout the year

The Slovak Rebel now has a pro record of 11 wins

Show next year will feature a host of Leeside Legends

Dave Hannigan looks back on the tumultuous career of a star of the boxing ring and stage

DERRY McCarthy was presented with the Cork Ex-Boxers Association Hall of Fame Award in the final boxing event of 2020.

CORK light-middleweight Gary 'Spike' O’Sullivan wants to add a sporting icon to his CV - but this time he could be taking on his boss.

HOPES are high that the coming year will see a spectacular twelve months of boxing on Leeside. With the availability of a successful Covid-19 vaccine and proper planning, the indications are very promising both inside and outside the ring.

THIS Friday's Mass in St Augustine's Church in Washington Street will mark the Centenary of the birth of hurling legend Christy Ring.

A WELL-KNOWN boxing coach once told his students, 'boxing is a sport of skill and science', as he demonstrated the art to a group of Cork youngsters.

TIM O'SULLIVAN, affectionately known as the 'Father of Cork Boxing', was laid to rest on Tuesday last aged 92. The former International represented Ireland on 16 occasions and was known, admired and respected throughout the island of Ireland.

IRELAND'S oldest boxing international, the legendary Tim O'Sullivan has passed away.

THE first full meeting of the Cork County Boxing Board in four months was held on Tuesday of last week. The full officer board attended, and one representative from each club was in situ.

DUE to the Covid-10 pandemic restrictions of recent months, boxing, like all over sports, has been dormant. However, the sport is still being maintained and acknowledged in other ways.

CORK boxers made up almost half of the Irish squad for Ireland’s first venture into the Olympic Games as an independent nation at Paris 1924.

BOXING will return in Cork in a limited form over the next number of weeks.

SPECULATION is rife that clubs will shortly return to training and competition following recent developments in the battle against Covid-19.

SPIKE O'Sullivan would love to manage fighters after he hangs up his gloves, though for now, his focus is on a belt.

CORK light-middleweight Gary 'Spike' O’Sullivan has vowed to hunt Patrick Teixeira down and knock him out. The Leeside orthodox has the Brazilian in his sights and says he won’t rest until he gets the current WBO World champion in the ring.

NOT even the fabled Robert of Locksley, Robin Hood, staged such a daring ambush. Cork middleweight Mick Leahy took approximately 105 seconds to become a Leeside Legend in Nottingham in May 1963.

THERE are difficult and challenging days ahead for Cork and Irish boxing in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to Cork County Boxing Board vice-president Billy O’Sullivan.

A legend of Cork boxing passed away last weekend. Here we reprint Pádraig Hoare's 2011 interview with one of the most influential figures in the sport in Rebel county. . .

CORK boxing legend Maurice Walsh, affectionately known as 'the Yank', passed away peacefully surrounded by his loving family. Since his death last weekend, many in the sport have reflected and paid tribute to his outstanding work.

THE name O’Sullivan has been linked to Cork and world boxing for many generations. It’s a name that has been synonymous with the sport from the Great Famine to the present day.

IT’S all quiet on the southern front. Cork boxing, for the first time in over 100 years, is at a complete standstill as a consequence of the Covid-19 pandemic.

A FAMOUS saying from Muhammad Ali springs to mind: “I can float like a butterfly and sting like a bee”.

CORK super-featherweight James Power wants to make a name for himself in Los Angeles before returning home for a dream fight on Leeside.

CORK light-middleweight boxer Gary 'Spike' O'Sullivan is being lined up for an Independence Day World title shot in the USA.

MICHAEL CARRUTH, Ireland’s first and only male Olympic boxing champion, will have a plaque erected in his honour on Cork’s famous Boxing Wall in Bishop Lucey Park.

MICHAEL O’BRIEN, President of the Cork Board, has revealed that a plaque in honour of Kieran Joyce’s boxing career will be erected on the iconic Boxing Wall in Bishop Lucey Park when the Covid-19 restrictions are lifted.

The sport of boxing is among the toughest in the world but for Corkman Michael Roche it meant fun and enjoyment for 22 years of a successful career.