Brendan Irvine’s debut win

Brendan Irvine made a successful senior international championship boxing debut, having survived a small scare on the way to his bout in Baku yesterday.

The 19-year-old Holy Trinity fighter won a unanimous decision over Bulgarian Tinko Banabakov, despite arriving at the venue just 10 minutes before his scheduled fight time, due to his driver first dispatching him at the wrong venue.

“We got a taxi, rather than use the athlete busses,” revealed head coach Billy Walsh.