Lee Reeves

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Now, popular Limerick boxer Lee Reeves remains in hospital in Dublin more than two months after suffering a serious head injury in his fight with Gary Cully at 3Arena in early August.

A special fundraising boxing event was organized for Lee and his family last Sunday at Southside Boxing Academy.

Live 95's Luke Liddy has more.

The Limerick boxing community came together in support of hospitalized Limerick fighter Lee Reeves on Sunday afternoon.

A special fundraising event was organized for Lee and his family by Treaty Boxing Club and Southside Boxing Academy.

Sean Kelly of Treaty Boxing Club explains.

You know what? Like Jamie said, the, uh, Limerick boxing, Limerick city itself always supports its own, and Lee is one of our own, and now seeing him like that is, is really sad to see.

You can guess who I'm talking about.

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big night boxing for for the limerick massive another one in a few weeks time before we say anything we want to remember our fallen friend who's a bigger fight than most of us could even imagine big shout out to lee reeves it's very it's very special to see the limerick crowd and see how to support your own

yeah 100 120 limerick lads up here today and as i said you couldn't have said it any better there's a bigger fight going on right now but the help of god lee comes out of this

There was plenty of eyes around, and the man walking in here now had plenty of eyes.

He was bitterly, bitterly disappointed, as was his team, as was Ian Gochran.

that's understandable so who knows what's going to happen in the future jay jay bourne and jb promotions and their matchmaking team certainly haven't got a massive amount in around that weight so maybe we could who knows but that's for those guys to deal with and what a job they're doing right now as well before i close this episode down i want to again remind people if you can at all please like share and subscribe i would ask you to leave a comment i would give you a click the follow button whether it's on spotify whether it's on itunes whether it's on iheart radio anywhere like that please i would ask you if just do it that's the only one thing i would ask if you can at all spare a second or a Now I guess the not so fun part of boxing is the danger, is the very real jeopardy with every training session, every sparring session, every fight indeed that comes and I harp back of course I go back to our friend, our fallen comrade.

Lee Reeves who 60 days ago since he battled Gary Cully in an epic encounter in my book it's fight of the year already but it's irrelevant really to be honest with you boxing is irrelevant what really matters now is Lee's grave battle for life and make no mistake about it it is a battle.

I recorded this episode here today, Wednesday the 30th.

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To boxing then Luke this morning and Southside Boxing Academy and Treaty Boxing Club they're coming together to hold a fundraising boxing show in aid of injured limerick boxer Lee Reeves.

The event is scheduled for Sunday the 4th of October at 3pm at Southside Boxing Academy.

Luke I suppose the boxing community are really coming together for Lee.

Yeah absolutely brilliant and I know that this it was a very tough event to get over the line with insurance purposes and all that so I know a lot of work has gone on behind the scenes to get this show over the line up and running I know that they're looking for sponsors for fights they're looking for donations obviously for people to come out buy tickets and support the event as well we'll hear from Sean Kelly of Treaty Boxing Club in the Saturday morning sport tomorrow to get a bit more detail on the event but look All in aid of Lee Reeves, who everyone in Limerick, including obviously the boxing community, continues to think about daily in his recovery, obviously from that horrendous injury.

And look, it is in aid of Lee.

Lee would be the first man to always help out.

anyone who needs help in Limerick you could pick up the phone to Lee say this family here are struggling with this this person's struggling with this and he'd he would never say no to you he was very good at looking after people in Limerick obviously everyone knows that in his charitable endeavors so look I think that it's only fit and right that people come out and support Lee Reeves is a really great guy and look we're just wishing him all the very best in his recovery.

So, you know, like you mentioned, Thomas O'Toole, Gary Cuddy looked to have reignited his career there during the summer.

Very unfortunate, obviously, what happened with Lee Reeves.

And I suppose on the same night, Stephen Kearns, a great win against Sen and Kelly.

Yeah, he's looking very good now lately, actually, Stephen Kearns.

Too much sacrifice.

God bless him, Lee Reeves.

He's probably a very good boxer and he sacrificed a lot of his life boxing.

He does a lot of charity work and he does a lot of voluntary work in Limerick and stuff.

We sit down with Jay to dissect it all.

We cover the rise of women's boxing with three Irish female fighters all seeing action on his last event, the overall prospects for the sport in Ireland and the sometimes terrifying realities of fighter safety, especially relevant following Lee Reeves' recent injury and the sobering news of his brother Glenn's brain bleed following his bout with William Crawlett back in April.

Plus, Jay is going to give us the inside track on what to expect from his next major showcase at the National Stadium, Judgment Day.

So, Jay, where do we start? It's been such a bumper summer of activity.

Of course.

Even Stephen Cairns, the way it's matched, that's going to open doors for him.

Very unfortunate result to Gary Culley against Lee Reeves.

We'll reflect on that.

And that's just the...

It's the horrible side of boxing because realistically, I got knocked out You look at Lee Reeves a few weeks ago who we still haven't really got an update on.

All these promoters talk about all the well-being of fighters, this, that and the other.

They don't care.