Wille ‘Big Bang’ Casey secures world title fight

EBU champion Wille ‘Big Bang’ Casey has secured a world title fight in Dublin early next year.

Casey only has 11 professional fights under his belt yet he is getting the chance of a lifetime in March 2011 against WBA intrim World Champion Guillermo Rigondeaux.

Cuban hotshot Rigondeaux holds the same belt captured by Bernard Dunne in Dublin’s O2 and claimed it on the undercard of Manny Pacquiao v Antonio Margarito in Dallas last month by beating Ricardo Cordoba on points in front of 60,000 spectators.

After just two years in the pro game ‘Big Bang’ Casey is now one fight away from being crowned the new WBA Champion. This amazing story which began in 2008 is sure to capture the imagination of the Irish public. Having won both the Prizefighter trophy and the European Title this year the Limerick native now stands ready for a fight with one of the greatest amateur boxers of all time.

“I’m delighted and very grateful that after such a short career I have got all these opportunities,” Casey said.

“As I have shown so far the bigger these occasions get the better I will get. Ireland has been waiting a while for their next world champion and I am ready to keep that belt here in Ireland.

“He (Rigondeaux) was a very technical amateur, it will be up to me to stop him doing what he does best which I am confident of doing.”

The fight is scheduled for March 2011 and is now likely to be held in Dublin rather than Cork, as previously stated.