The one fear Jay Byrne has for his brother Glen Byrne going right into a grudge match with James Freeman is that the Armagh native received’t flip up.
The Dubliner and Freeman have agreed to commerce leather-based this summer season and can combat for the BUI Celtic title in Pearse Stadium, Galway on June 27.
The conflict, which performs out on the undercard of a Kieran Molloy-Kassie Benjamin showdown, will see the decision of a nigh-on secret grievance.
Each will deny any actual beef, however pressure between the pair has been simmering to the extent that it has Irish boxing followers’ mouths watering – and after they boil over within the open Galway air many anticipate one thing scrumptious to be served up.
Nonetheless, fighter turned promoter Jay Byrne worries the conflict will not be on the menu when GBM roll into Connacht with the DAZN cameras.
The older brother and promoter of 1 half of the bout hints that Ian Guaghran managed Freeman will not be eager on the home dance and consequently might search for a method out over the approaching weeks.
“I do know Glen will beat him,” Byrne stated.
“Glen is the favourite as a result of he has fought higher opponents and been concerned in quite a bit higher fights. I watched James’ debut and I feel he misplaced that combat 3-1. I spoke to his opponent on that evening, Jordan Grannum, and he agrees.
“Glen is harder, James hasn’t proven if he has a chin but, or if he has any energy. Okay, Glen isn’t an enormous puncher however he’s robust, too robust for James,” he provides earlier than expressing concern.
“I’ve a worry James will pull out and feign an harm, but when he makes it on the evening, Glen will cease him.”
Freeman, who has frolicked in Portugal coaching alongside Dillian Whyte, has accepted the combat, and there may be nothing to recommend he received’t ring stroll subsequent month.
There’s additionally a component of Byrne backing his brother, bigging up his fighter, and enjoying promoter along with his feedback. Though he does transfer to clarify why he believes his considerations are legitimate.
Byrne claims that after Freeman had initially known as for the combat, he rebuffed presents to share the ring with the current BUI Celtic title challenger.
“Glen could be just like how I used to be as a fighter. He’s powerful and would combat anybody, so we did go in search of that combat and it was refused.
“James went very very quiet on the entire thing. We went so far as to request he combat in a six-round combat so he could be eligible to combat Glen for the BUI Celtic title on my present in April. He was combating one among his supervisor’s different fighters, so that might have been simply organized, however they didn’t do this, so we couldn’t do it in April.”
Like each boxers, the JB Promotions boss man has tried to minimize discuss of real beef, however in doing so, explains the place the needle comes from.
“Final March Glen boxed on the Ulster Corridor. It was his TV debut, an enormous second for him on DAZN. He was nervous as you may get. He’s nonetheless a novice when it comes to skilled boxing, so he was a pure novice then, and he’d by no means boxed on TV. He was additionally the primary dwell combat on the invoice. The nerves received him and he got here out of the traps at a very quick tempo and blew his arse after three rounds. In equity, it was his first six-rounder, and he was coping with nervous vitality. Admittedly, it was a poor efficiency. He received the combat however all of the elements concerned meant he didn’t field to his finest.
“Whereas the combat was happening, James Freeman decides to run all the way down to Jamie and Mick Conlan, saying, ‘get me him subsequent’, ‘I beat him’, ‘I need him subsequent’.
“There isn’t any beef as such however I simply felt he disrespected Geln, I felt he ought to identified higher as a result of he’s a novice professional with no newbie background like Glen. I feel he ought to have had extra respect for Glen, he confirmed no respect.”
