While big Irish heavyweight Adam Olaniyan is focused on his own path, that doesn\u2019t mean he can\u2019t pay tribute to those who went before him.<\/p>\n
Olaniyan fights in Dublin tonight.<\/p>\n
The Queensberry-promoted, Brian Peters-managed youngster is due to box against tonight and again on September 5 at Croke Park, when he is fights on the undercard of Katie Taylor\u2019s farewell fight against Flora Pili.<\/p>\n
The heavy-handed Olaniyan is only 20 and 2-0 (2 KOs) but tonight boxes Argentine Jonathan Claudio Sauco, who is 5-2 (1 KO) before he sets his sights on staying busy when he becomes the first heavyweight to box at Croke Park since Muhammad Ali in 1972.<\/p>\n
It is, of course, set up to be a celebration of the brilliant Taylor.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe\u2019s an icon,\u201d Olaniyan said. \u201cI wouldn\u2019t say an icon, I\u2019d say she is the icon. She\u2019s like the sportsperson of Ireland, and to be sharing a card with her, that\u2019s also a pinch-me moment because I\u2019ve grown up watching her. I\u2019ve watched Katie fight in the Olympics twice, I\u2019ve watched her in the World Championships. I\u2019ve seen her at the stadium loads of times when she was still an amateur, just mad stuff like that, and then to now be sharing a card with her, to be fighting on the same card, to be managed by the same manager [Brian Peters], it\u2019s a proper full circle moment, really.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While big Irish heavyweight Adam Olaniyan is focused on his own path, that doesn\u2019t mean he can\u2019t pay…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":841635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[217143,64,63,802,1920,6653,8200,85],"class_list":["post-841634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-adam-olaniyan","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxingscene","tag-katie-taylor","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=841634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/841635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}