USA Boxing drafts in Irish coach amid controversy in Dublin (Reuters)
By Padraic Halpin DUBLIN (Reuters) – The United States named Ireland’s Billy Walsh as their women’s boxing coach on Wednesday, a week after his resignation in Ireland ahead of next year’s Rio Olympics caused a political storm and front-page headlines. Rejected by the Olympic movement for years because of a perceived lack of global interest, women’s boxing was a stunning success in its debut at the 2012 London Games, with Ireland and the U.S. winning two of the three gold medals up for grabs. The United States, a once great amateur boxing nation whose men failed to win an Olympic medal for the first time in London, took home two in the three women’s weight categories, led by teenage middleweight champion Claressa Shields.