With a victory against Italy’s Etinosa Oliha on Saturday, August 8, Irish middleweight Aaron McKenna looks poised to induce a wave of nationalist fighting pride for his Irish homeland, but ProBoxTV’s own Paulie Malignaggi says an Oliha victory could trigger the very same for Italian boxing fans.
IBF No. 2-ranked Oliha, 22-0 (10 KOs), of Turin Italy, and IBF No. 3-ranked middleweight McKenna, 20-0 (10 KOs) of Monaghan, Ireland, will meet for the vacant IBF middleweight in the 12-round main event of Saturday’s Zuffa Boxing 10 broadcast, live on Paramount+ and SKY (2:00 pm EDT/7:00 pm BST) from Dublin, Ireland’s 3Arena.