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Zuffa Boxing Makes Its Ireland Debut As A World Title Comes To Dublin's 3Arena. Here's Everything You Need To Know.
It's impossible to overstate the passion boxing enjoys in Ireland. “The Sweet Science” has long been as ubiquitous as shamrock or a pint of Guinness in the national culture. For Zuffa Boxing's maiden voyage to the Emerald Isle, the promotion stacked the card with the sorts of local legends and international stars determined to do that passion justice.
Event: Zuffa Boxing 10
Date: Saturday, August 8, 2026
Location: 3Arena, Dublin, Ireland
Where to Watch: Paramount+ (US) Sky Sports (UK/Ireland), How To Watch In Your Country
Featured Bouts
Main Event: Aaron McKenna vs Etinosa Oliha
Zuffa Boxing's first show in Ireland comes with the heavy stakes: a vacant middleweight world title up for grabs on Irish soil for the first time in more than three decades.
McKenna (20-0, 10 KOs) makes his long-awaited professional debut on home soil, ending a 469-day layoff since the best win of his career, a lopsided decision over former 154-pound titleholder Liam Smith in London that included a 12th-round knockdown. Trained by his father, Feargal, in a gym built in the family's back garden, and previously schooled at Freddie Roach's Wild Card club in Hollywood, the Ring Magazine No. 6 middleweight has never tasted the canvas in 20 pro fights and enters as a heavy betting favorite. Now 26, McKenna combines an aggressive, forward-moving style — honed by years spent sparring in southern California gyms full of tough fighters — with a habit of pinning opponents against the ropes and refusing to give them any room to breathe.
Standing across from him is Oliha (22-0, 10 KOs), the Ring's No. 5 middleweight, who is bidding to become the first Italian-born sanctioning-body titleholder since 2009. Born in Turin to Nigerian immigrant parents and raised in Asti, Oliha has fought his entire career in Europe — 16-0 in Italy, 6-0 in Germany — and is coming off a third-round stoppage of an overmatched foe after a 330-day layoff. A composed, technically polished boxer who likes to break opponents down with body shots before finishing with sharp uppercuts and straight rights, he has sparred names like Caleb Plant and Badou Jack to prepare for elite opponents.
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Whoever wins becomes the only fighter in the current top-10 to hold a win over another top 10 middleweight — a genuine changing-of-the-guard fight at 160-pounds.
Co-Main Event: Callum Walsh vs Tyler Denny
Callum Walsh (16-0, 11 KOs) returns to the scene of his only previous fight in Ireland — a 2024 sellout at the 3Arena. The Cork southpaw has now gone the distance in three straight fights to protect his perfect record, most recently a wide decision over Carlos Ocampo in the first-ever Zuffa Boxing main event, a fight briefly interrupted when his glove touched down for a ruled knockdown in round six.
His opponent, England's Tyler Denny (21-4-3, 1 KO), has made a career out of testing prospects: 10 of his 28 pro fights have come against unbeaten opponents, and he's gone 6-3-1 in those, including three straight wins over undefeated fighters in 2022 and 2023 that made him a European and English champion along the way. A former plumber who quit his job after a sponsor offered to cover his wages, Denny has built his career as boxing's dependable measuring stick, and a jarring win over him would be exactly the statement Walsh needs.
RELATED: Denny Interview
Joe Ward vs Artjom Kasparian
One of Ireland's most decorated amateurs, three-time European gold medalist and 2016 Olympian Joe Ward (12-1, 8 KOs, 1 KOed by), returns from a career-long, 659-day layoff after three separate fights fell through over the past year-and-a-half, including a scrapped bout with ranked light heavyweight Lerrone Richards. The Athlone southpaw has won 12 straight since a gruesome pro-debut knee injury, riding a four-fight knockout streak, and did camp for this fight at former contender Andy Lee's gym in Spain, where he sparred rising super middleweight Hamzah Sheeraz.
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Netherlands-based Artjom Kasparian (14-0, 12 KOs), who fled Russia with his family as a four-year-old and spent seven years moving through asylum centers before settling in the Netherlands, carries a 12-fight knockout rate of 85.7 percent and a seven-fight finishing streak into his first fight in Ireland.
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Sam Hickey vs Brad Axe
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Scotland's Sam Hickey (5-0, 2 KOs), a 2022 Commonwealth Games gold medalist who beat two future Olympians on his way to that title and trains under Robert McCracken, Anthony Joshua's and Carl Froch's longtime trainer, hasn't lost a round as a professional and is coming off a highlight-reel stoppage in his Zuffa debut. He steps into his first scheduled eight-round fight against England's Brad Axe (5-1), an active-duty Royal Air Force firefighter of 11 years whose only pro loss came on a disputed decision in which he appeared to score an unrecognized knockdown.
Louis Greene vs Daniel Buciuc
England's Louis Greene (18-4, 12 KOs), whose two-fight knockout streak is the latest chapter in an up-and-down career that has included a career-best stoppage of unbeaten prospect Jack McGann as a +240 underdog on the Anthony Joshua-Francis Ngannou undercard, meets Romania's Daniel Buciuc (16-2, 6 KOs), an unorthodox pressure fighter who ground out a majority decision over an unbeaten Venezuelan in a competitive, physical fight in May. Both men have made careers out of durability and unorthodox styles, setting up a rugged six-rounder in the middle of the card.
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Stevie McKenna vs Owen O'Neill
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Aaron McKenna's younger brother, Stevie "The Hitman" McKenna (16-1, 15 KOs), gets his own shot on home turf for the first time as a pro, riding a 93.8 percent knockout rate into his second Zuffa appearance. He lit up the arena in Bournemouth last June with an instant-classic knockout of Casey James Streeter at Zuffa Boxing 07. His opponent, Owen O'Neill (14-2, 1 KO), works as a taxi driver between fights and has been sparring both McKenna brothers three times a week as recently as June — a training-camp regular now getting the live rounds for real after a tune-up win vs Jack Swallow last June.
Connor Coyle vs Mark Beuke
Derry's Connor Coyle (22-0, 10 KOs) returns to Ireland for the first time since 2017, looking to build momentum after a no-contest ruling. Five of his ten career knockouts have come in the first round. Facing him is Texas's Mark Beuke (13-3, 7 KOs), who arrives on a 10-fight winning streak capped by a stunning Zuffa Boxing comeback win last time out after dropping the first three rounds on every scorecard, and who works as a trainer in a program helping people manage the effects of Parkinson's disease.
Patrick O'Connor vs Juan Manuel Moriel
The card opens with 21-year-old cruiserweight prospect Patrick O'Connor (3-0, 3 KOs), a decorated U.S. amateur of Irish heritage trained by his father who has never made it out of round two as a pro, against Spain's Juan Manuel Moriel (6-1, 5 KOs, 1 KOed by), who took his last fight, a first-round knockout loss, on less than a week's notice after starting his career with five straight knockouts of his own. O'Connor will look to keep his perfect finishing rate intact against a dangerous veteran opponent.
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