‘Worlds’ team to be named today

THE Boxing Council of the IABA will meet at 11am today to select a team for the World Championships while the boxers settle into their training camp in Assisi alongside Olympic hopefuls from Italy, Ukraine and Azerbaijan.

When the members of the Boxing Council meet this morning they will be presented with a recommendation that the winners of last week’s box-off be selected for next month’s World Championships in Azerbaijan by the officer board. However they will also review recommendations from High Performance Coach, Billy Walsh.

There are 16 Irish boxers at the training camp in Assisi, including the three-time women’s world champion Katie Taylor whose Bray clubmate Adam Nolan was added to make up a total of three welterweights.