Paddy Donovan [10(7)-0] may very nicely safe himself a Matchroom contract this coming weekend.
It was confirmed final weekend that the Andy Lee-trained starlet would add additional Irish curiosity to the Katie Taylor undercard final weekend – and has since been revealed he trades leather-based on the invoice as a free agent.
The Limerick starlet has parted methods with High Rank and thus is promotionally free, that means he may impress his approach onto the books of Matchroom if he performs in Dublin on Saturday night time.
Irish-boxing.com understands that’s the purpose and that former middleweight world champion of the world Lee, who works intently with Matchroom in his position as a DAZN pundit, has been promoting the southpaw to Matchroom boss Eddie Hearn.
It’s additionally understood Lee negotiated Donovan out of the High Rank contract hoping to align him with a promotional outfit that work extra commonly in Eire and the UK.
Donovan had made a really constructive begin to his profession below the steering of Bob Arum and co. A hand harm slowed that progress down however he’s again totally match now and decided to kick on to the subsequent degree.
The quickest approach to try this is with huge promotional backing and that’s the place Matchroom may are available in. Beat Sam O’Maison [17(7)-4(3)] in fashion on what guarantees to be an enormous night time by the Dublin Docklands this weekend and he may catch Hearn’s eye and alter the trajectory of his profession.
Maison is a stable late alternative opponent. The English fighter has seven knockouts from 17 wins and is a former mild welterweight champion of England. The 32-year-old has additionally challenged for an IBF Worldwide title and shared the ring with Dalton Smith however has typically misplaced when he’s made huge step ups.
