Tough-talking Sutherland ready for fighting return after injury nightmare
“Write me off at your peril,” he said. “I know Darren (O’Neill) is the new middleweight sensation but I don’t intend to relinquish my title that easily and, when the senior championships come around next year, I will be ready to defend my title.”
This time last year the 24-year-old student from Dublin City University was taking Irish boxing by storm. Without winning a national senior title — he had put that on the back-burner when he went to Brendan Ingle’s gym in Sheffield as a 16-year-old — he went to the world senior championships in Mianyang City, China and made the quarter-finals through a succession of second round stoppages before losing out to the world and European champion, Korbov Matvey.
