Hard act to follow as Nevin fights to maintain winning sequence
Fellow Mullingar man John Joe Joyce has left the teenager — he turned 19 years of age in June — with a very difficult act to follow when he turned the tables on his longtime tormentor, Gyula Kate, in a thrilling fight to claim his place among the last 16 light welterweights.
A place in the last 16 bantamweights will be the prize when John Joe Nevin takes on Adbdelhalim Ourradi of Algeria in tonight’s preliminaries (3.30pm approx) and, while he faces a vastly more experienced opponent, one could never dismiss his chances.