Eric Donovan
Eric Donovan 
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| Birth Name | Eric Donovan |
| Fight name | Lilywhite Lightning |
| Weight class | Featherweight |
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| birthday | July 26, 1985 |
| place of birth | Athy |
| Combat Statistics | |
| Struggles | 12 |
| Victories | 12 |
| Knockout victories | 7th |
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| bronze | 2010 | lightweight |
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| bronze | 2009 | lightweight |
Eric Donovan (* 26. July 1985 in Athy ) is an Irish professional boxer in the featherweight .
Amateur career
Eric Donovan started boxing as a teenager. He started for St. Michaels Boxing Club Athy and was trained by Zuar Antia and Dom O'Rourke. As an adult, he first started in bantamweight, then featherweight and, from 2007, lightweight.
He was Irish junior bantamweight champion in 2003 and was a participant in the 2003 Junior European Championships (preliminary round) and the 2004 Junior World Championships (preliminary round).
His greatest successes among adults were winning a bronze medal in the lightweight at the 2009 EU Championships in Denmark and the 2010 European Championships in Russia . At the EM he had reached the semi-finals against Rashid Kassem, Dmytro Bulenkow and Miklós Varga , where he was eliminated by Albert Selimow .
In addition, he was, among other things, quarter-finalist of the EU championships in 2007 and 2008, eighth-finalist of the European championships in 2006, the world championships in 2005 and 2007, as well as a preliminary round participant in the European championships in 2004 and the world championships in 2009.
He won the Irish championship title in 2004 in bantamweight, 2005 and 2006 in featherweight, and in 2009 and 2010 in lightweight.
Professional career
He won his professional debut on June 25, 2016 in Dublin against Damian Lawniczak from Poland. He won his first professional title on September 9, 2017, when he won the Northern Irish Championship of the Irish Boxing Association ( BUI ) against Dai Davies. He won the Irish championship on March 30, 2019 by knocking out Stephen McAfee.
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- Box Sport magazine
- Website "amateur-boxing.strefa.pl"
- AIBA website
- Website of St Michael BC Athy
Web links
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| SURNAME | Donovan, Eric |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Irish boxer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 26, 1985 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Athy |