‘Boxing saved my life’
Highlighting the best of the week’s stories
SOME boxers don’t manage 20 professional fights in a career spanning many years. Seamus Devlin – “The Celtic Cobra” – has already got that many bouts under his belt after making his debut as recently as July 2021.
It seems an even bigger achievement when one considers Devlin’s rocky road into the professional ring. He started boxing late, at 27 years old. Drug addiction, anxiety attacks and an attempted suicide were the milestones – and triggers – that made him an unlikely athlete.
Devlin is a journeyman, more respectfully known as a road warrior. Travelling the country, testing up-and-coming prospects in tough fights, Devlin is not expected to win and has only done so once.
