JANUARY
THERE was a shock for 2022 World and Commonwealth Games Champion Amy Broadhurst in the final of the Irish Elite Championships.
Broadhurst had been boxing at 63kgs and 60kgs, but moved up to 66kgs for the Elites at the National Stadium in Dublin. Broadhurst reached the final, where she was beaten by Granine Walsh.
The story of the championships was the return of Dean Walsh. Six years after his last Elite title, he was crowned light-middleweight champion and also named Best Male Boxer. In the last eight he beat Olympic bronze medallist Aidan Walsh.
FEBRUARY
GREAT BRITAIN revealed they would not be sending a team to the Women’s World Championship in a protest at the way IBA are running boxing.
