Egan keen to park past problems

KENNY EGAN has put past problems behind him to chase a record 10th successive national senior title at the Elite Boxing Championships which gets under way at the National Stadium tonight.

The Olympic silver medallist stepped off the roller coaster to win his ninth title last year and while former king of the heavyweights, Jim O’Sullivan, also has 10 titles to his credit, Egan will be the first to claim 10 on the trot.

“To be honest, all the pressure was on me last year having come back from the Games in Beijing,” he admitted. “I was ‘The Man’ – the one they all wanted to bring down.