Boxing: Casey steps closer to claiming Elite title

Limerick’s Myles Casey advanced to within one win of becoming the first St Francis BC boxer since Jimmy Moore and current WBO World middleweight champion Andy Lee to claim an Elite title last night.

Moore beat Paddy Barnes — the last time Barnes was beaten at an Irish Championships — in the 2006 light-fly final, a year after Lee claimed his final middleweight crown before turning pro with the Detroit Kronk.

Casey, a brother of ex European pro champion and World title challenger Willie “Big Bang”, beat Antrim’s TJ Waite on a unanimous decision to set up next Friday’s clash with Evan Metcalfe.