“I stood at the back of the gym, jumping rope and shadow boxing and just watched. As an amateur living in the staunchly loyalist Shankill Road area of Belfast, he was selected by the island-wide Irish Amateur Boxing Association to participate in the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, Korea, and asked to carry the Irish flag as the youngest member of the team (aged 18). On 30 July 1995, less than 2½ years since his pro debut, he won the WBC championship by beating the champion Yasuei Yakushiji in Nagoya, Japan to become Ireland's first ever WBC world champion. He went on a publicity tour to promote the book, which reached Number 2 on the best sellers list. As …
He was a guy who had trained legends! I fought this guy who’d had a couple of dozen fights and I knocked him out in two rounds. In 2007 McCullough signed to fight Spain's Kiko Martínez who had just defeated Bernard Dunne at the Point Depot, Dublin for the European super bantamweight title. "I'm really enjoying being able to pass on my experience to a range of professional and amateur fighters that I've worked with, and they love it. Barry McGuigan used to come up sometimes too.
Wayne McCullough was inducted into the Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame on Saturday. I remember my coach out here, Eddie Futch, teaching me the importance of shadow boxing," added the 1992 Olympic silver medallist. “I’ve lived in Las Vegas now longer than I lived at home but every time I go back to Belfast I say: ‘I’m going home’ and then when I leave I say: ‘I’m going back home’. Currently The Ring's Las Vegas correspondent; Wayne McCullough is a former WBC bantamweight champion and Olympic Silver Medalist.
Representing Northern Ireland at the 1990 Commonwealth Games, Auckland, he won a gold medal and carried the Northern Ireland flag in the closing ceremony. I am disappointed with the way things went but I just felt I could not go on. However, on the day before the fight there was uproar during the weigh-in and the fight was cancelled by the BBBC amid chaotic scenes. “I went to the gym for about six months and trained.
However, Martínez failed to make the agreed weight and was 1.75 lb over the agreed weight. “He was 82 years old then and he was training Riddick Bowe, heavyweight champion of the world, and Mike McCallum, three-time world champion, was in the gym too. The Belfast born warrior enjoyed a stellar amateur career winning Gold at the 1990 Commonwealth Games and a Silver medal at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona. Wayne McCullough has said he is confident fellow Northern Irish boxer Carl Frampton will succeed in his bid to become a three-time world champion. After this fight, his wife Cheryl and Stuart Campbell began to manage his career when his original manager, Mat Tinley, became a boxing promoter. Conlan, 28, was due to fight Belmar Preciado in Madison Square Garden on 17 March before the bout was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
[11][10], Martínez was given a couple of hours to shed the excess weight, but did not return to weigh in again and the scales were closed by a BBBC official. He lost in six rounds, retiring on his stool. McCullough said he has never seen Las Vegas, a city renowned for entertainment, as quiet since he moved to live there 27 years ago.
He also won flyweight gold at the 1990 Commonwealth Games, representing Northern Ireland. “I was seven years old when I started,” he explained.
These days McCullough trains fighters, celebrities and ordinary Joes alike at his Pocket Rocket gym in Vegas. Wayne McCullough was inducted into the Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame on Saturday Wayne McCullough was inducted into the Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame in Las Vegas last Saturday. Over 40 years on from his first night at Albert Foundry, McCullough sat among his peers at the Red Rock Resort in Las Vegas last Saturday night.
The medal ceremony for his Commonwealth title was marked by an unusual incident.
McCullough had a very successful amateur career, amassing a record of 319 wins and 11 defeats, with over 100 wins coming by way of knockout. [1], Maysfield Leisure Centre, Belfast, Northern Ireland, Reseda Country Club, Los Angeles, California, US, Learn how and when to remove this template message, "Boxing champion in Beyonce video remake", "McCullough: A fighter's perspective on Chavez-Johnson", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wayne_McCullough&oldid=952857604, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 24 April 2020, at 12:19.
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