Any Irish/ Irish decent BSceners feeling a bit patriotic today? come inside...

[toshmurph]

oh really? so you think the amateur system today prepares young men for the professional ranks as adequately as it ever has? present that thinking to any veteran trainer and they'll laugh in your face.

try telling me that Steve Collins would grace your avatar if you didn't share a nationality with him. that's all the explanation you need, Seamus. his 'legacy' makes Joe Calzaghe look like Ezzard Charles by contrast.

Maybe not as much anymore but show me a guy with no amateur experience, compared to somebody with a great amateur career and tell me you think there's nothing to separate them!?

As far as Collins goes I can't say that I would or wouldn't have him, but he's a boxer who embodied heart, grit and determination, and making the most of limited skills, your saying nobody can relate to that?? You see guys here with Micky Ward, Gatti or Rocky Graziano! Are all those guys Bostonian, Canadian or Italian American

Oh and Seamus?? Hah, try a little harder next time

[croz]

Teres no irish posters on this board. Brits sure.

well I'm proper Irish but thanks for the mass generalization of 180k members.

[croz]

i never once said that there aren't reasons why Irish boxing is an embarrassment.

in 2013, amateur boxing is about the least relevant it's ever been to the professional sport.

That's why most of the current top level boxers were all exceptional amateurs.

[techliam]

Northern Irish count?

[Tom Cruise]

Northern Irish count?

Well im working off the Scottish part of my family being originally from Ireland so you are more Irish than me!

[techliam]

Well im working off the Scottish part of my family being originally from Ireland so you are more Irish than me!

Everyone claims to be part Irish nowadays, even Canelo

Without getting too political I see myself British though..........

[Tom Cruise]

Everyone claims to be part Irish nowadays, even Canelo

Without getting too political I see myself British though..........

guess the 'One drop rule' works for the Irish too.