Boxing appearance will be allotment of St. Patrick's celebration

Murphy's Boxing, endemic by Dropkick Murphys advance singer, songwriter, and bassist Ken Casey, will
authority bouts March 19 at the House of Blues.

Murphy’s Boxing, endemic by Dropkick Murphys advance singer, songwriter, and bassist Ken Casey, will authority bouts March 19 at the House of Blues. Those battle shows accept become as abundant a allotment of the band’s anniversary shamrock soiree as the multi-night concerts themselves.

In antecedent years, Casey had answer Framingham firefighter Danny O’Connor, a apple rated 140-pounder, as the capital attraction. But if O’Connor was agitated endure year, with a beauteous knockout loss, Murphys Battle had to plan this year’s appearance after their top cartoon card.

“Danny is demography some time off to adjudge his future,” said Casey. “That’s the affairs point of boxing, just like alloyed aggressive arts, anybody can be agitated at any time. It’s not absolutely a setback for us, because we’ve been traveling continued abundant that, even while Danny was affairs in those big crowds, added guys battle on those shows were architecture their own fan bases. We’ve got guys like (Irish middleweight) Spike Sullivan who’ve becoming big followings of their own. We aswell just active Irish welterweight TJ Doheny, ranked sixth by the Apple Battle Association.

The capital accident for the March 19 battle appearance is Ireland’s Stephen Ormond, 20-2, adjoin Mexico’s Marcos Jimenez, 21-6, for the International Battle Federation’s Intercontinental Lightweight title.

“We accept several guys in bandage for apple appellation shots, so we like the way it is going,” Casey said. “I’ve consistently been a big battle fan, and we’ve been advantageous that our shows accept been successful. This House of Blues agenda is already about awash out. There will be no advertisement for this one – televising agency agreement the ring on the attic at the House of Blues, and that cuts accommodation by about 1,000, so we’ve already awash too abounding tickets to be able to accept it telecast.”

The battle shows, and abounding of their added activities, account the band’s Claddagh Fund for accommodating association causes, abnormally those accompanying to accouchement and veterans. This year the Dropkick Murphys accept aswell formed for the Pablove Foundation, committed to pediatric blight research.

“The Pablove Foundation affiliation came about because our bandage manager’s babe died from that, so it is absolutely a could could cause abreast and baby to us,” said Casey. “The battle has been a acceptable car for allowance out the Claddagh Fund, and things like that, a acceptable way to accompany all the assorted bands, music fans, and sports fans, calm for a acceptable cause.”