Conor McKeown

And, you know, he was he was a showman like he put on

These great spectacles up until the actual boxing part in a professional ring, because he just never packed the power to really finish the job in a lot of these fights.

And that's no slight on him, really, because there's a few things that play into that.

He was an unbelievable clinician as an amateur boxer, like just point scorer in chief.

Brilliant, as you said, won a medal as a teenager.

and miles on the clock in combat sports the wear and tear of those take hold more visibly than really in any sport because for someone who is so twitchy and these high reflexes when they start to go and we saw with the best of the best like Roy Jones Jr.

who did have the power to back it up but once his reflexes started going he's getting hit with punches that he wasn't even expecting and the Lee Wood fight which is one of the greatest fights I've ever seen live if not the best

where he's putting on an incredible performance.

He's seconds, and I can't emphasize this enough, seconds away from winning a world title in unbelievable fashion in someone's backyard over in Nottingham.

And he gets knocked out and knocked out of the ring, like unconscious on his feet, and then tumbles out of the ring.

And literally, that's a line in the sand moment for him, as in he never recovered really.

Yeah, that's a fight of the year contender.

You're watching one of the great Irish boxing performances of all time, especially on the road.

And it was taken away from him.

And you kind of thought he'd get another shot because his credentials and backing are so that he merits that.

But he was never the same fighter again.

And I think even he admitted that.

And with the whole MTK thing, didn't fight in Dublin then?

He's fought in Dublin since.

So one of the fights in the last couple of years was in the three arena.