Spike stunner lights up 3Arena

While Matthew Macklin suffered a heart-breaking defeat on Saturday night, his middleweight compatriot Gary ‘Spike’ O’Sullivan staked his claim to be Ireland’s premier 160lb fighter with a brutal one-round knockout of Dubliner Anthony Fitzgerald at the 3Arena.

The pre-fight trash talk between the pair had meant the chief-support bout had a lot to live up to, but Mahon native O’Sullivan walked the walk after talking the talk.

Such was his confidence, he claimed he backed himself to deliver a first-round finish, living up to the prediction by flattening Fitzgerald with an uppercut after one minute and 50 seconds.