Comeback kid Dunne facing into the dangerous unknown

IT WAS always going to be a difficult assignment but Bernard Dunne’s third comeback fight at Breaffy House Resort in Castlebar tonight took on a new dimension when his original opponent, Mexican Eduardo Garcia, injured himself in training and Cristian Facio was called up as a replacement.

No boxer likes it when an opponent is replaced in the lead up to an important fight — this one has been billed by Promoter Brian Peters as a world title eliminator — and it becomes more dangerous when a fighter with genuine pedigree steps in to fill the breach.

Facio, from Uruguay, is the reigning WBC Latino champion at bantamweight, and is ahead of Dunne in the world rankings — and that’s a first for the Dubliner.