Donovan prepares to make significant weight jump

ERIC DONOVAN (St Michael’s Athy) who surrendered his featherweight title to clubmate, David Oliver Joyce, at this year’s national senior championships makes a significant move up the weights over the coming weekend when Ireland face Russia in back to back matches.

Tonight he will box Kirill Glumov at featherweight at the National Stadium while on Sunday night he will move up to the lightweight division to take on Ivan Elizarov at Athlone Institute of Technology.

Prior to the GeeBee multi-nations tournament in Helsinki the reigning lightweight champion, John Joe Joyce announced that he is to move up to light welterweight and Donovan is eyeing the vacant crown.