Unbeaten Olympian Michael Conlan returns home to Belfast, Northern Ireland, on Saturday when he meets Brazil’s former world title challenger Adeilson Dos Santos at the SSE Arena in a non-title ten rounder on ESPN+. Conlan who hasn’t boxed in his home city since February 2011 stated “Irish boxing is just getting better. I think Irish professional boxing is the strongest it has ever been. We had the golden age of Irish amateur boxing, and right now it is the golden age of professional boxing.”

Besides Conlan, other Irish stars include two-time world champion Carl Frampton, Paddy Barnes (who challenges for the WBC flyweight title in August) and WBA bantamweight champion Ryan Burnett.

Conlan, 26, who has won all seven fights since turning professional in the United States insists he will be home to fight once a year despite being a boxing darling in New York.