By Jim Dower: 2-time Irish Olympian Michael Conlan (5-0, 4 KOs) boxed a beautiful fight in beating Fernando Molina (7-4-1, 2 KOs) in defeating him by a 6 round unanimous decision on Saturday night in front of a U.S audience at Madison Square Garden in New York. Conlan showed off some amazing skills in winning the fight by the scores 60-54, 60-54 and 60-54.
By Jeff Aranow: 2-time Irish Olympian Michael Conlan is interested in facing and beating Guillermo Rigondeaux and Vasyl Lomachenko in the near future. The 26-year-old Conlan (4-0, 4 KOs) is fighting in the co-feature bout on the Lomachenko vs. Rigondeaux card this Saturday night against 29-year-old Argentinian Luis Fernando Molina (7-3-1, 2 KOs) in 6-round fight on ESPN at Madison Square Garden, in New York.
By Jim Dower: WBO World featherweight champion Oscar Valdez (22-0, 19 KOs) weighed in at 125.8 pounds for his fight on ESPN this Friday night against unbeaten #4 WBO contender Genesis Servania (29-0, 12 KOs) at the Convention Center in Tucson, Arizona. The 26-year-old Servania weighed in at 125.4 lbs.
By Jim Dower: IBF World super flyweight champion Jerwin Ancajas (27-1-1, 18 KOs) defeated #3 IBF Teiru Kinoshita (25-2-1, 8 KOs) in the 7th round on Saturday night on ESPN Boxing from the Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane, Australia.
By William McKay: Two time Irish Olympian Michael Conlan (1-0, 1 KOs) made his pro debut on Friday night in stopping the game but limited Tim Ibarra (4-5, 1 KOs) in the 3rd round of a scheduled 6-round fight at Madison Square Garden in New York. The 25-year-old Conlan switched from orthodox to the southpaw stance in round 3 to punish Ibrarra with a flurry of shots after trapping him against the ropes.
By Dan Ambrose: Two-time Irish Olympian Michael Conlan predicts that IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (36-0, 33 KOs) will knockout Daniel Jacobs (32-1, 29 KOs) within 5 rounds in their fight on March 18 at Madison Square Garden in New York. Conlan says he cannot see Jacobs making it past the 5 rounds due to Golovkin’s huge punching power.
By Allan Fox: Two-time Irish Olympian Michael Conlan has reportedly signed a multi-fight deal with Top Rank promotions to have them guide his career. Conlan plans on fighting in the super bantamweight division.
The 24-year-old Conlan twice fought in the Olympics in getting beaten in 2012 and 2016. There some controversy involved with Conlan’s loss to Russia’s Vladimir Nikitin in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rios de Janeiro in the quarterfinals of the bantamweight division. Conlan was pretty upset about his loss, but you can understand what the judges were seeing.