Pretty excited for this... an annual event held St. Patrick's day weekend. A bar in Portland brings bands from Ireland as well as a boxing team to compete against the best boxers from our region.
The heavyweight they are bringing is their best/most experienced boxer.
I train the recent US Championships heavyweight champion Pat Ferguson who will box this heavyweight. It used to be when you win nationals you are placed on the U.S. team. AIBA decided that the winners of WSB will make up this team so we are now busy looking to get as much experience from now til the 2016 Olympic Trials, so this Ireland challenge is big for us, and rare us fans up here in the Northwest to see such boxing.
This is the 5th year of this event & Team Northwest hasn't won the event, so we're training our butts off to bring the Northwest vs. Ireland team trophy home for once.
keep punching