THREE-TIME Irish Elite champion Roy Sheehan got off to a winning start at the World Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan, this afternoon.
The St Michael’s Athy welterweight beat Bahamas representative Carl Hield 15-10 having trailed 4-3 after the first.
Sheehan, the only Irish boxer in action today, will now face Croatia’s Borna Katalinic at the weekend.
European light-welterweight champion, Ray Moylette, will be centrestage tomorrow.
More to follow.
