Returning Walsh to top bill at Cork fight-night

BILLY WALSH won his first national boxing title in City Hall back in 1985 when the championships were staged in Cork as part of the “Cork 800” celebrations where Sugar Ray Leonard was among the celebrities watching him perform.

Returning Walsh to top bill at Cork fight-night

That was the first of nine national titles won by Walsh — a few years later he would stand alongside his younger brothers Kevin and Patrick when the family equalled the records of the Christle brothers from Dublin, and the famous Joyce brothers from Sunnyside, as the only families to win three national titles on the same night.

On February 17 Billy Walsh will return to Cork City Hall to top the bill at the “Valentine’s Weekend Massacre” — an exciting presentation of professional boxing packaged by the “Nowhere to Hyde Promotions” headed by Gary Hyde.

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