Danny Duffy confirms professional boxing switch

Raphoe Boxing Club graduate Danny Duffy has turned over to the professional ranks.

The 23-year-old bantamweight has been added to the Sheer Sports stable under the management of former world title challenger Jason Quigley.

Duffy, who hails from Strabane, is slated to make his professional debut at the SETU Arena in Waterford on December 7.

Having already won the Irish senior title a few weeks earlier, Duffy won the 2023 Irish Elite bantamweight title when beating Oisin Worsencroft.

Those wins came just months after the death of his mother and two other family members in a road traffic collision.

He was the first Raphoe boxer in 30 years to win an Elite title – the 16th won by a Donegal club - when he was crowned in Dublin last year.

At the County Donegal Boxing Board awards in September, Duffy was presented with the Harry Kid Duffy Memorial Cup having been named as the best Elite boxer.

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Duffy joins his fellow Raphoe BC colleague Cathal McLaughlin in joining the pro journey. He, too, will continue to be trained by Gary McCullagh and Gerard Keaveney and the east Donegal club.

The Conlan Boxing and Neil Power Promotions card on November 7 features the welterweight clash of Tyrone McKenna and Dylan Moran with Graham McCormack pencilled in to face Craig McCarthy in a super middleweight joust.