Boxing legend Barry McGuigan will be at the Belfast Dockers' Club on Tuesday night to see his son Shane in action at the Ulster Amateur Championships.

The Clones Cyclone's 19-year-old son is the current British (ABA) Novice Welterweight Champion.

He faces Holy Trinity's Terence Garland in the quarter-finals of the Welterweight division.

"I don't want to sound cocky but he's talented. He'll do well," McGuigan told BBC Northern Ireland.

The former world featherweight champion coaches his son although Shane was a late starter to the sport.


"I didn't actually encourage him to box but my life is so involved in boxing, with commentaries, writing about boxing and working with the Professional Boxers Association, invariably he was going to be become interested in it.

"He didn't take it up until rather late. Nobody expected him to do it - least of all myself but he's proved to be pretty good at it.

"He won the national novice title in June and he's made steady progress ever since.

"He trains like a demon and we're always talking about boxing."

The former world champion claimed his first Ulster Senior title at the Dockers club 30 years ago, the same year that he landed Commonwealth Games gold in Edmonton.


Seven years later, he claimed the world featherweight title by outpointing Eusebio Pedroza of Panama at Loftus Road in London.