Walsh waits as Baku hopefuls slug it out

SIX weeks from the most important event of the year, Billy Walsh was sitting in the high performance unit on the South Circular Road in Dublin with not one of his boxers in sight.

The beleaguered high performance coach, who has masterminded Irish boxing’s record medal haul in recent years, must await the outcome of this week’s box-offs before knowing who will travel with him to the world championships in Baku next month.

He also fears he could be without his two reigning European champions, Ray Moylette and Joe Ward, because injuries have ruled both out of the box-offs.