Irish boxers maintain high world rankings

IRELAND'S boxers have maintained their high flying positions in the first AIBA Official World rankings published for 2010 yesterday.

Olympic medallists Ken Egan and Paddy Barnes, John Joe Nevin and John Joe Joyce are all ranked in the top 10.

Egan, the highest ranked of all the Irish boxers, is at number four at light heavy, while light flyweight Barnes is at nine. Joyce and Nevin are at six and seven in the light welter and bantam categories.