Confident Ward puts it up to Egan

Kenny Egan is going to have to produce an almighty effort if he is to wrest the light heavyweight title from Joe Ward in the finals of the Elite senior boxing championships at the National Stadium tonight.

That’s the opinion of Ward himself, ewho stunned the boxing world by outclassing and outpointing the Olympic silver medallist last year when Egan was chasing a record 11th successive national senior title.

While Egan was insisting he is a different man than he was last year when he was shrugging off the personal problems that beset him after the Beijing Olympics, Ward insisted he and not Egan is the one who has made the most improvement since then and that Egan had not shown him anything different during the current campaign.