Michael Conlan

The Irish Olympian's knockout – at the hands of Leigh Wood - was one that families have nightmares about.

So I tried to finish him in the next round and he was out on his feet for most of that round. “I always felt I was comfortable in the fight, I felt it was easy. I know for me to get back in that position I need to have a good fight, a hard fight and a credible opponent. He winced every time I hit him to the body and he was hurt every time I hit him to the head. “A lot of fighters would take a lot of time out and say they need to recover,” he said. Probably the worst thing was me knocking him down in the first round because it made me expend so much energy trying to get him out of there. “The only way I can look at it is to say ‘that’s boxing, it happens’,” he said. “I was awake on the floor,” Conlan said. By the next morning, he was already talking about coming back to Nottingham for a rematch. “The last thing I remember is going out for the twelfth and then it’s vague. Was it bad?’ And I said ‘We’ll talk about it later’.” It had been the biggest night of his career, as he challenged Wood for the WBA featherweight title in Nottingham in March. For most of the 12 rounds things had been going well.

Michael Conlan returns to the ring today for a home turf featherweight clash in Belfast against Colombia's Miguel Marriaga. Tonight's main event at the SSE ...

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The eagerly awaited return of Michael Conlan is almost among us, as he headlines the main event at the SSE Arena Belfast this weekend.

He lost by unanimous decision decision to Eduardo Ramirez at the Staples Centre last December. Marriaga went 20-0 in his first 20 professional fights up until 2014, but has struggled for consistency since. We have all the information you need to know including how to watch Michael Conlan v Miguel Marriaga. It's been almost five months since the two time Olympian last took the ring.

We take a look at what to expect from the full card as Michael Conlan faces Miguel Marriaga in a featherweight bout on Saturday, August 6.

- Padraig McCrory vs. Three other fights on the card are featured at the sportsbook. Conlan is a -1200 favorite to beat Marriaga at DraftKings Sportsbook.

The Belfast boxer, who was knocked out in the 12th round by Leigh Wood in March, defeated Colombian Miguel Marriaga via a unanimous decision. Conlan put ...

There was a plot twist in the tenth and final round when Marriaga hurt Conlan with punch on the ropes, but the Belfast boxer hung on for the final bell and victory. On an action-packed undercard, Tyrone McKenna was the main attraction. Conlan put Marriaga down in the seventh, eighth and ninth rounds with the South American surviving the count on each occasion.

After 10 rounds, all three judges awarded the fight in the 30-year-old's favour against Miguel Marriaga.

It was a good night too for Padraig McCrory, as he stopped Mexico’s Marco Periban in the fifth round. It was a positive return to the ring for the Belfast native. The Olympic medallist was dominant throughout this evening and deserved his win, though survived a scare in the final round as he looked in trouble after receiving a couple of blows, before recovering well to see out the fight.

Michael Conlan, 30, responded to his first professional defeat by scoring three knockdowns on his way to a dominant points win over Miguel Marriaga on ...

Conlan unloaded a sharp combination that dropped Marriaga to a knee after his foot gave way. Marriaga (30-6, 26 KOs) has now lost two in a row but was upset with the knockdowns, insisting he slipped. I got caught in the last round, for me to come through that says a lot, and I'm back.

Conlan, 30, was fighting for the first time since his devastating twelfth round knockout loss to Leigh Wood in March, and showed the discipline to box against ...

“In the last round, he caught me with a shot. Even in the fucking last round, he hit me with a shot. I got knocked out in my last fight in the last round. He buckled me a little bit. He landed a good shot. I was a bit off the pace.

And to finish off the prelims, Sean McComb cruised to a decision win over Ramiro Blanco. Paddy Donovan kicked off the main card and dominated a game Tom Hill ...

McKenna refuses to push out and give himself some space to work. The Belfast man should stick with this approach and 'box' Jenkins as opposed to 'fighting' him. Both guys fighting in a phonebox. But then he gets in tight and Jenkins looks good. McKenna stays long and looks decent. Jenkins calls McKenna on and clearly wants McKenna to go back to engaging in tight. In our co-main event, Tyrone McKenna outlasted Chris Jenkins to get a decision victory. Conlan recovered quickly however and held on to pick up the 17th win of his professional career. Conlan started to fire on all cylinders at this point, and dropped Marriaga in rounds seven, eight and nine. Copy and paste these last few rounds. Seconds later, the Mexican hit the deck following a strong left hook. After that, Kurt Walker came through a stern test in Marcos Gabriel Martinez to move to 3-0 in his professional career.

Victory was needed and delivered in emphatic fashion by Michael Conlan as he scored three knockdowns on his way to a comprehensive points win (99-88, 99-88, ...

He did step on the accelerator in seven, yet his advances were crude and subsequently exposed. It proved to be his best moment of the opening half, but the Belfast man was simply quicker and crisper in his work. One wondered just when, if ever, the visitor would gamble as he had made little to no impression. Conlan forced errors and he capitalised with the right to make it four rounds from four. Conlan picked himself up to finish on the front foot, ensuring this homecoming was a glorious one. The visitor pawed the jab in an effort to draw a mistake from Conlan who remained poker-faced.