Joyce return worth the weight after impressive victory in Cork

JOHN JOE JOYCE impressed on his move into the welterweight division when he outpointed Golden Gloves champion, Quintin Fortune of the NYPD, at the Rochestown Park Hotel in Cork on Saturday night, where a Garda/Rylane Boxing Club selection hosted team from the New York Police Department at a sell-out dinner show.

The Beijing Olympian came away from a four-month lay-off and expressed delight moving up a division.

“I was struggling with 64kgs for a long time,” the Mullingar man admitted as he reflected on two big losses to Dublin light welterweight, Philip Sutcliffe in the past year.