O’Leary was devastating in his performance against Hughes last time out, making his way to the ring in front of a vibrant crowd before delivering them a stoppage victory. <\/p>\n
The 26-year-old is unbeaten across his 19 fights and will be boxing in Dublin for the second time as a professional. <\/p>\n
“There’s nothing like fighting in Dublin and having support like this is priceless,” he said in the pre-fight media conference.<\/p>\n
“Mark can study me all he likes but I’m the wrong person to study, the way that we’ve been preparing in the gym is special. <\/p>\n
“The best chance he had of beating me was in the last fight, and he still wouldn’t have beaten me so he’s especially not doing it this time.”<\/p>\n
Chamberlain was previously tipped to fight for a world title after winning two fights by stoppage on big cards in Saudi Arabia. <\/p>\n
But his career faltered in late 2024 as he was beaten by Josh Padley at Wembley Stadium on the undercard of Anthony Joshua against Daniel Dubois. <\/p>\n
A win for “Thunder” on Saturday would not only be a significant upset in O’Leary’s home city, but would also likely propel him back towards fighting for major honours in the sport. <\/p>\n
“I know what to expect on the night as they’re all going to be there for Pierce,” Chamberlain added. <\/p>\n
“At the end of the day it’s just us two in there and I’ll blank out the noise, I’ve trained hard and I’m ready for 12 rounds.<\/p>\n
“I’m looking forward to getting back out there and having a fight, I’m going to win and I’m going for the upset.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"O’Leary was devastating in his performance against Hughes last time out, making his way to the ring in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":720807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-721316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/720807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}