Andy Lee World Champion

The_Dave

Congrats Andy, Ledge!

Mc Love

Why wasnt there more coverage of this fight?! Never knew a thing about it but if hee-haw was fighting the whole country would be talking about it

efb

It was on BoxNation- I suppose cod he was the underdog

Toffeeboy

http://www.limerickleader.ie/sport/limerick-sport/andy-lee-crowned-champion-of-the-world-1-6472919

davo10

I'm also amazed about how little there has been in the irish media about this fight. I remember 20 years ago when the last irish middleweight to win a world title, Steve Collins, boxed, the hype before hand was enormous and the country came to a standstill for his fights. I woke this morning to google the result, amazingly there was nothing on the irish version of google news taken from irish media sources, but there was on the UK version from the British edition of the Star.

We should be proud of Andy, great boxer and a great guy, he works hard and fights hard. I hope he gets a few big fights, comes out the other end still on top and sets himself up financially for life. He deserves it.

Faing

Lets have a world championship fight in Thomond Park and give Andy Lee the welcome home he deserves. Unfortunately, he dips under the press' radar because he isn't a controversial or loudmouthed attention seeker, just a Munster lad done good.

Clareman

Well done Andy Lee, fair play to him, whatever about the media coverage, fair play to him for becoming World Champion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBd9NfSxiC4

Clareman

davo10 wrote: »

I'm also amazed about how little there has been in the irish media about this fight. I remember 20 years ago when the last irish middleweight to win a world title, Steve Collins, boxed, the hype before hand was enormous and the country came to a standstill for his fights. I woke this morning to google the result, amazingly there was nothing on the irish version of google news taken from irish media sources, but there was on the UK version from the British edition of the Star.

We should be proud of Andy, great boxer and a great guy, he works hard and fights hard. I hope he gets a few big fights, comes out the other end still on top and sets himself up financially for life. He deserves it.

The Collins fight was on Sky Sports only and was part of a huge Sky hype machine which was Chris Eubank, it also helped that the fight was in Milstreet just after the Eurovision

Boxing world wide is down massively, UFC could legitimately be said to be replacing it.

efb

This was on box nation. The purses in MMA don't come close to those in boxing

davo10

Clareman wrote: »

The Collins fight was on Sky Sports only and was part of a huge Sky hype machine which was Chris Eubank, it also helped that the fight was in Milstreet just after the Eurovision

Boxing world wide is down massively, UFC could legitimately be said to be replacing it.

I understand that, but Katie Taylor gets constant press coverage and rightly so, Andy was fighting for the world championship, the first irish holder of the belt for 20 years so they don't come around very often, I saw nothing in the papers or on the news over the last couple of days. And I think that is a shame, there are not that many things that we are the best in the world at, now we have a middleweight boxer, good on him.

Clareman

efb wrote: »

This was on box nation. The purses in MMA don't come close to those in boxing

There's a class action case coming around cause of the UFC purse thing article

I think it's a shame that there wasn't more hype over his fight, personally I would have watched it if I knew it was on, with social media and the over saturation of news now I'm amazed there wasn't more made of it.

Hopefully now he'll get a couple of defenses and then a big pay day at home.

vkid

Fair play to him. well deserved

The Indo's report says "Victory also means he is the first member of the travelling community to win a world strap."
Is that the case?
http://www.independent.ie/sport/other-sports/world-champion-andy-lee-i-want-to-defend-my-title-in-ireland-30834295.html

magma69

Should have a civic reception for him like they had when Carl Frampton won a world title in Belfast last September.

Iranoutofideas

First Irishman since 1937 to win a world title fight in America.

Delighted for him.

zulutango

It's so well deserved. He had been all but written off a few years ago, so to make his way back to the top is astounding and fantastic.

Also, the guy has been one of the more articulate and intelligent voices when speaking about Limerick in recent years, and who doesn't buy into the tired narrative about the city. Hats off to the guy, he's a true gentleman.

bigpink

Is it not English with the accent?How long living in limerick
Fair play a world champion

zulutango

bigpink wrote: »

Is it not English with the accent?How long living in limerick
Fair play a world champion

His family are from here and they moved back from London when he was quite young, 9 or 10 I think. He took up boxing in Limerick and broke through as a teenager when fighting at underage level for Ireland, and representing St. Francis' Boxing Club which is in the heart of Limerick City.

bigpink

He's limerick so

flutered

bigpink wrote: »

He's limerick so

he used to live out in castleconnell, i used to meet him and his brother out in ul, andy used to use the running track a little also he used to spar quite a lot in the left hand corner of it, they were nice kids, they would chat away with me when ever we met, thats a long time ago, he should have got gold in athens, but he went in with his head all wrong.

seachto7

Tyson Fury is his cousin?

highlydebased

Apparently he's arriving into Shannon on Wednesday and there will be a civic reception in town also apparently

washman3

Faing wrote: »

Lets have a world championship fight in Thomond Park and give Andy Lee the welcome home he deserves. Unfortunately, he dips under the press' radar because he isn't a controversial or loudmouthed attention seeker, just a Munster lad done good.

Andy is a Limerick man, no such place as Munster..;)

Delighted for him,genuine nice guy.
Juat goes to show that nice guys don't always finish second.
Coverage pre-fight was an absolute disgrace.

killwill

highlydebased wrote: »

Apparently he's arriving into Shannon on Wednesday and there will be a civic reception in town also apparently

Yeah there is a reception for him at City Hall. Not sure what time. I think around 5.30

buyer95

killwill wrote: »

Yeah there is a reception for him at City Hall. Not sure what time. I think around 5.30

Can anyone go to this, like is it a homecoming kind of thing.

killwill

buyer95 wrote: »

Can anyone go to this, like is it a homecoming kind of thing.

Ya its a homecoming.
St. Francis Boxing Club have cancelled their Wednesday training to ensure all club members go to support.

magma69

Think the reception starts at about 4:30 and Andy will be on stage at around 5:30. There will be a questions and answers session etc. I'll be popping over to this at about 5:30 to give him my support. This is a fantastic achievement.

Waggaboo

magma69 wrote: »

Think the reception starts at about 4:30 and Andy will be on stage at around 5:30. There will be a questions and answers session etc. I'll be popping over to this at about 5:30 to give him my support. This is a fantastic achievement.

Delighted for him. Came across him at various times around the city and he's always been a gent. Hope he gets a few big paydays out of it.

RikkFlair

Fair play to him, he's a breath of fresh air. Whenever I hear him talk I hear a well spoken, down to earth young man, who's content to let his ability do the talking unlike that aforementioned loudmouth Steve Collins who I could never warm to, World Champion or not.

A good Limerick story to end the year with.

Luckydog69

Delighted for Andy... Always came across as a very decent guy...hope he gets a big fight in his hometown...talk of a fight with Billy Joe Saunders, the guy who beat Eubank Jnr a couple of weeks ago.

Limerick Dude

Luckydog69 wrote: »

Delighted for Andy... Always came across as a very decent guy...hope he gets a big fight in his hometown...talk of a fight with Billy Joe Saunders, the guy who beat Eubank Jnr a couple of weeks ago.

Well Billy Joe is the mandatory challenger AFAIK so here's hoping the fight takes place in Ireland at least!

Parchment

Delighted for him. A very humble guy who has been slogging away and then pulls this off! Castleconnell on the map. We are all very proud of him.

A really nice interview with him on the Irishman Abroad podcast online.

RINO87

RikkFlair wrote: »

Fair play to him, he's a breath of fresh air. Whenever I hear him talk I hear a well spoken, down to earth young man, who's content to let his ability do the talking unlike that aforementioned loudmouth Steve Collins who I could never warm to, World Champion or not.

A good Limerick story to end the year with.

Great post!! Andy does all of his talking in the ring, where it matters, an anomaly in the world of pro boxing these days. So happy for him that his hard work and dedication paid off, a true champ and an inspiration!

Iranoutofideas

He's being interviewed now on newstalk

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Nothing says serious cool, classy guy than being a gent outside the ring and doing the job in the ring.

A great ambassador.

Iranoutofideas

Surprised he wasn't on the Late Late

washman3

Iranoutofideas wrote: »

Surprised he wasn't on the Late Late

He would have the join the continuous queue of rugby players to get on that show..;)
Anyway, an appearance from Andy may effect Christmas sales of Tommy Boooooooow's designer collection of menswear...:D

Charlie George

washman3 wrote: »

He would have the join the continuous queue of rugby players to get on that show..;)
Anyway, an appearance from Andy may effect Christmas sales of Tommy Boooooooow's designer collection of menswear...:D

Talking of rugby players and the like,im just back from the fight in Vegas,thought id see Limerick leader and 95fm at weigh in,no sign,if it was the ruggers len dineen would be all over them,super achievement by a super guy and Limerick has a world champion,nuff said.

Cookiemunster

Charlie George wrote: »

Talking of rugby players and the like,im just back from the fight in Vegas,thought id see Limerick leader and 95fm at weigh in,no sign,if it was the ruggers len dineen would be all over them,super achievement by a super guy and Limerick has a world champion,nuff said.

It was in Las Vegas, not Cardiff. Small regional papers don't send reporters half way around the world. They devoted the full front page to Andy the Monday after fight and covered the homecoming extensively.

seachto7

There is no way Live 95 would pay a reporter to go to Vegas. Did RTE?

But as the expression goes: "you're nothing without cauliflower ears in this town"

Vanquished

seachto7 wrote: »

But as the expression goes: "you're nothing without cauliflower ears in this town"

Very true. I doubt we'll see any pictures of Andy Lee adorning the walls of city pubs!

Silentcorner

Vanquished wrote: »

Very true. I doubt we'll see any pictures of Andy Lee adorning the walls of city pubs!

There is a picture of him hanging on the wall in O'Dwyers pub, a well known rugby haunt, and it has been there a while.

This time the boxer is a World Champ...it will be interesting to see how this will be recognised by all and sundry, we haven't had one of them before.

We couldn't have asked for a better role model/champion.

Vanquished

He's deserving of far greater recognition in his home town. He's had an international profile for some time now!

Hopefully his achievements will begin to be appreciated at this stage!

Cookiemunster

Vanquished wrote: »

He's deserving of far greater recognition in his home town. He's had an international profile for some time now!

Hopefully his achievements will begin to be appreciated at this stage!

???? He's had plenty of recognition locally. As someone who's not into boxing I only know of him due to all the attention he's had in local media over the years.

Swiper the fox

Not sure if it warrants a new thread as it's not certain but it's being widely reported that Andy Lee will fight Billy Joe Saunders I Thomond Park in September.
Hope his team stand firm on this now and are not convinced to have it in England, it seems to make sense to have it here.
Great bloke and the inevitable sell out will be a proper tribute to what he has done for Limerick. Pity the other guy is so good:(

Charlie George

Who said BJS was good,fight more than likely in London with upton park and the excel arena being mentioned as probable venues,sky will have the final say and that will probably mean London.

Swiper the fox

Charlie George wrote: »

Who said BJS was good,fight more than likely in London with upton park and the excel arena being mentioned as probable venues,sky will have the final say and that will probably mean London.

Sorry, I'm not a big fight fan any more, I was only going on what I read this morning:o

You could be right about London but I hope not, does Lee have any aces to play to bring it to Limerick?

Charlie George

Just seen on boxing website that fight is to be held in Thomand pk september 19th,super news.

Cookiemunster

Newstalk just said they contacted Thomond Park who say it's untrue and they have no idea where this story came from.

EDIT. Frank Warren has debunked it too. Says talks are still on going. No date or venue decided.

A2LUE42

http://www.live95fm.ie/news/andy-lee-to-make-first-world-title-defence-at-thomond-park/22590

ANDY LEE TO MAKE FIRST WORLD TITLE DEFENCE AT THOMOND PARK


Saturday 20 June 2015

It's been confirmed that Andy Lee's first world title defence will take place at Thomond Park.
The Limerick fighter will take on England's Billy Joe Saunders at the venue on September 19th.
Andy Lee confirmed the news of the date and venue of the fight on his twitter account earlier.
Speaking exclusively to Limerick's Live 95fm the champion admitted it's a dream come true...

A2LUE42

http://www.breakingnews.ie/sport/other/andy-lee-title-defence-set-for-thomond-park-682766.html

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