Why One Night in Millstreet was made — ‘The fights tend to tell a bigger story’
One Night in Millstreet is a boxing documentary that pits together a throng of wholehearted characters and uses a great sporting story as wider social commentary.
1995; Steve Collins of Ireland, right, and Chris Eubank of England during their WBO World Super-Middleweight Title fight at the Green Glens Arena Millstreet. Pic: David Maher, Sportsfile
THE local businessman and horse breeder who promoted the fight by driving around his hometown on a tractor, Chris Eubank sitting ringside on a motorbike while Tina Turner blares, the eccentric hypnotist in the other corner, it was one of the biggest nights in the history of boxing in this nation. It was Ireland.
In March 1995, Steve Collins dethroned Chris Eubank to claim the WBO World Super-middleweight title in Millstreet.
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