Ireland’s Olympics boxers Paris 2024

The Ukrainian is relentless with a sneaky good defence. Reminds me of GGG

I know he's a Cuban, which means there's a strong chance he won't turn pro, but Alvarez looks perfectly suited for the pro game. He obviously has the skills, but unlike many of the top amateurs, he throws punches with the intention of taking your head off. He's also physically strong and defensively sound.

Of course, Cubans can be hit and miss once they leave their homeland, but I'd love to see him turn over.

Stephen Molloy Kellie's first boxing coach is in the papers today saying since Kellie won the second Gold medal he has a list as long as his arm of the names of kids who have put their names down to join the club.

He says it'll be the same in every club in Dublin with an explosion of young girls joining the sport in the coming months and among them could well be another future Olympic Gold medalist for Ireland.

Kellie is back home this Sunday and I'd say she's going to get an awesome welcome from her local community, what a legend of a lady and a great role model she is.

Katie Taylor congratulated her saying "You have sealed your place as an icon of Irish sport and going down in history as a legend. Two time Olympic Champion- wow!!!

World Championships in any sport are incredibly hard to win, the clue is in the name.

Not agreeing with someone doesn't equate to being angry with them.

It's quite funny the way some people try to define and label another poster and then go on in the very same post to display the characteristics they tried to label the other person with. (I'm not referring to you by the way.) Too many body punches to the head I'd say coupled with the know it all "I could have been a contender" chip on the shoulder.

I agree with you it's not a matter of opinion we don't produce punchers, it's a matter of fact that we do.

All you have to do is look at the records that speak for themselves. Off the top of my head Wayne McCullough, Andy Lee, John Duddy, Eamonn McGee, Steve Collins and Barry McGuigan all had savage knockout records.

Andy Lee's knockout of John Jackson is considered by some to be the greatest knockout in the history of boxing.

I mentioned a couple of young Irish boxers earlier in the thread that are only starting out and have a savage knockout, Callum Walsh, Tommy Hyde and Brandon McCarthy. We even had a former Olympian Kevin McBride who put Mike Tyson on his arse and stopped him.

Just stuck my head into the BoxRec stats there especially for you Champ.

Wayne McCullough had 34 professional fights 18 of which he won by knockout.

What BoxRec doesn't tell you is that Wayne McCullough had 318 fights as an amateur of which he won 100 by knockout.

That's probably one of, if not the best, ever record of knockouts in the history of amateur boxing.

If facts don't suit you I've no problem with that, but at the end of the day they're still facts.

You're obviously best suited to the world of fantasy where you can see yourself taking on the Irish lady boxers and holding your own.