You might do a double take and if you are watching various TV stations in the coming days. You might do so again as the Conlan Brothers climb into a variety of boxing rings on both sides of the Atlantic to further their professional careers.
Older brother Jamie is first up appearing on one of the first marquee events to be shown on eir Sport’s new Box Nation station tomorrow night.
He takes on Nicaraguan Yader Cardoza in Belfast’s Waterfront Hall with Paddy Barnes having his second professional fight on the same card.
Michael, three years younger will make his pro debut in Madison Square Garden one week laster on St Patrick’s Day and RTÉ Sport announced yesterday that they would be screening a highlights show from the bout on Saturday night.
Darragh Maloney will host the show at 8pm with analysis from Bernard Dunne and Jim Rock.
The following weekend it will be back to Sky Sports for Katie taylor’s fourth professional fight. It is a pretty good March for Irish fight fans.
