An intriguing heavyweight conflict is within the works for boxing’s return to Galway.
GBM Sports activities have confirmed they may run a present in Galway on June 28 and the suggestion is it’s going to play out in Pearse Stadium.
Galway favorite Kieran Molloy will clearly function prominently and can do a lot of the heavy lifting with regards to ticket gross sales.
Nevertheless, it’s understood DAZN have pushed for a television headline and the promotional outfit wish to make Dillian Whyte versus Hughie Fury.
GBM Sports activities’ Izzy Asif beforehand mentioned: “GBM Sports activities might be staging an occasion at Pearse Stadium, Galway in July and Hughie Fury might be on the cardboard.
“We now have a number of names in competition as an opponent, all of whom are well-known. Dillian Whyte is a frontrunner for that slot as we consider that could be a battle which might ship massively for followers in attendance and watching all over the world.
”We look ahead to confirming additional particulars of our Galway occasion in the end.”
It’s additionally understood a number of fascinating all-Irish undercard bouts have been agreed.
Each Fury and Whyte have Irish hyperlinks and have fought in Eire earlier than.
Whyte fought in Castlebar on St Patrick’s weekend of 2024, topping a Platform Sports activities card that hosted fights for Thomas Carty, Spike O’Sullivan, Craig O’Brien, Ray Moylette and Daniel O’Sullivan.
Fury fought in Belfast and Dundalk again in 2013.
