Brett McGinty may well have boxed for the last time as an amateur last night.
McGinty lost out to Gabriel Dossen in a middleweight semi-final at the National Elite Championships in Dublin,
The St Johnston man, an eight-time Irish champion from a stellar schoolboy and youth career, cut a frustrated figure as Doseen took a unanimous decision win to reach an Elite final at the first time of asking.
The Galway puncher, a World Youth bronze medallist, sported a heavily bandaged knee, but followed up on big talk.
A week earlier, Dossen put out the defending middleweight champion, Michael Nevin – who defeated McGinty in the 2018 final – and backed that up with a win over McGinty.
Now, the Oakleaf ABC boxer – a two-time Irish Elite finalist – is set to re-evaluate and a move to the professional ranks may well be imminent.
McGinty, a Commonwealth Youth silver medallist and a European Schoolboys bronze medallist, admitted last month after losing to Fearghus Quinn in the Ulster Elite final that ‘it’s going to happen sooner or later’.
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