JB Promotions boss Jay Byrne believes the upcoming ‘New Daybreak’ card on the Nationwide Stadium on October 10 marks a big milestone within the promotional outfit’s rise inside Irish boxing.
The Dublin-based promoter has overseen 9 occasions in lower than two years since launching JB Promotions in late 2023, steadily rising from small, grassroots exhibits into greater nights that put the highlight firmly on home expertise. Now, The previous boxer says, the tenth card within the sequence will showcase precisely what the corporate got down to do.
“Now we have been constructing in the direction of these varieties of massive exhibits, stuffed with intriguing home clashes, since our inception,” Byrne defined. “From our first present in November 2023, this has all the time been the medium-term purpose.”
Headlining the present is a conflict of former underage standouts in Paul Ryan and Edward Donovan. Each fighters can boast elite-level beginner pedigree, having received European gold medals within the beginner vest and each will see this a stepping stone to nice alternatives.
All-action BUI Celtic tremendous welterweight champion, Dublin’s Daniel O’Sullivan, faces the hardest check of his profession in opposition to beginner standout Dean Walsh from Wexford who’s guided managerially by Mick Conlan. Each males step as much as 10 rounds for the primary time as professionals in a contest for the vacant All-Eire title.
One other enormous conflict is a Mild heavyweight bout for the All-Eire title as Kerry’s Kevin Cronin, additionally managed by Conlan, goes head-to-head with Cork man Cathal Crowley over 10 rounds for the vacant championship in what guarantees to be an all-action Munster battle.
Elsewhere on the reside broadcast, Dublin metropolis’s Peter Carr and Navan’s Sean Murray lastly get to settle their confrontation within the ring over six rounds. In a battle brewing since each fighters turned skilled, the 2 prospects will go to battle in a struggle to not be missed, with neither man identified for taking a backwards step.
Legendary former world title challenger Gary ‘Spike’ O’Sullivan returns to The Stadium in an eight-round bout. The Cork native has globetrotted and been a part of the most important nights – this can be a return to The Nationwide Stadium for the primary time in 14 years.
Unbeaten prospects resembling Lateef Bayo Alabi, Glen Lynch, Kelsey Leonard and Podge Collins, the most recent pugilist from the well-known combating household, all characteristic, whereas the present sees debuts for beginner skills Christina Desmond, Davey Joyce, Daniel Fakoyede and Sarah Murphy, with unbeaten John Carpenter and Tony McGlynn additionally making their returns to the ring.
“To have a invoice stacked stuffed with this stage of fights exhibits what we’re attempting to do – our earlier present at The Nationwide Stadium in April was much like this one however I believe this has introduced issues up one other stage,” commens former BUI and BBBofC Celtic Champion Byrne.
The promoter additionally highlighted the velocity and consistency with which JB Promotions has been delivering alternatives for fighters throughout Eire, noting that the corporate’s progress mirrors the starvation and high quality inside the home scene.
“It’s our tenth present in lower than two years, which is a testomony to the fighters in Eire, and the onerous work that’s put in by the JB crew, and I’m very a lot trying ahead to a different thrilling night time of Dublin professional boxing.”
