Raphoe ABC welterweight Danny Duggan is savouring a trip into the unknown this week.
Doogan is part of a Donegal Boxing Team that will take on a selection from the Boston Boxing Academy, assembled by Buncrana’s Mark Porter, at the Teacher’s Union Hall in Dorchester on St Patrick’s Day.
Duggan will line up in a welterweight contest on the night in Boston.
“We’re going to the unknown now because you don’t know what you’re up against, but we’re working well together and it’ll stand to us,” says the St Johnston man.
“The quality of spars we get here will take some beating.
“We get brilliant work here, attacking and defending. We get good sparring here with a lot of different kind of boxers.
“It’s great for us to get a trip like this, especially the younger lads. It’s crazy to get to Boston on Paddy’s week. It’s all about experience. That experience can only make you better.
These shows are jammed packed. That’s unreal. It’s some difference from here.”
Back in March 2015, Duggan captained an Ireland selection that comprised boxers from Raphoe and Convoy ABCs for a joust with an English team and was adjudged harshly to have lost his bout with Elliott Geddes in Tenbury Wells.
The experience, though, stands to him – and makes him pine for better attendances at local shows.
He says, ahead of a tournament in Boston that is expected to have close-to 1,000 people in attendance: “You’d like to get more to come out here at home. A good crowd makes for a better fight because it gets the fighters motivated more I think.”
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