After last Fridays loss for Ian Napa of his European bantamweight title, it seemed like it wasn’t going to be a good weekend for Dublin boxing brothers, the Hyland’s, as the youngest of the trio Paul, was lined up to face Napa for that title.
Unfortunately for Paul Hyland, Napa lost against Frenchman Malik Bouziane and this loss for Napa has put a huge dent into the big plans that Team-Hyland had for 2009: Step in European Super-Featherweight champion Serguy Gulyakevich.
The Belarusian 26-1 (12KO) has a fantastic record and his only stoppage was against Alex Arthur back in April 2006 in Edinburgh for this very title. A couple of months later and a few hundred miles south of Scotland, Eddie Hyland also had his only loss to date against Stephen Mullin in Liverpool.
That fight for Hyland was only the fifth of his career and after the fight he contemplated his future in the ring but after taking time out and making the decision to stick at the noble sport, he has come back notching up seven straight wins with a career now standing at 11-1 (3KO).
The biggest win so far for Hyland was most certainly his fight against Kevin ‘Sweet Pea’ O’Hara in one of the best fights of 2008 in an Irish ring. After the 10-round war, Hyland emerged victorious and became Irish Super-Featherweight champion in the process.
He has had two wins since that fight last April and was looking forward to fighting in America over the St. Patricks weekend in either Boston or New York. Unfortunately for Hyland, the promoters of the New York card folded and then his opponent was late with his medical details for the Boston card.
However, good things come to those that wait and the announcement today that a fight between Gulyakevich and Hyland has been sanctioned to take place on 29 May in Hyland’s home town of Dublin.
No more news of the other fights on the card but it is believed that the card will be promoted by Frank Maloney and the undercard will feature Irish Olympic bronze medallist Darren Sutherland.
I will post more when I get an update on the situation.
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