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LIGHTWEIGHT Oisin Fagan's career was given a turn in the spotlight when the news broke last week that he would fight Amir Khan on December 6 in London. Fagan (22-5), who returned to Dublin in July after spending 10 years in Oklahoma, is relishing the challenge that awaits him.
"I am going in there as the underdog.
IRISH Olympic silver medalist Ken Egan was at Madison Square Garden Saturday night to take in the fight between Joe Calzaghe and Roy Jones Junior for the Ring Magazine light heavyweight title. The Dubliner spent a few days in the city talking to boxing promoters and mulling over his future.
At the Garden, Egan was as much a fan as the rest of the crowd, taking photos of Bernard Hopkins ringside and enjoying the anonymity that New York might offer him.
The families of McMahon and O'Mahoney are related only by the common derivation of their names from the Irish name Mahon (in Gaelic Mathuna), which was a personal name, meaning a bear. The O'Mahoney or Mahony family are derived from Mathuna, a grandson of Brian Boru. The family were the Eoganacht, the regal dynasty of Munster and were one of the most prominent of West Munster.