Conlon eager for World Championships

Updated: Thursday, 29 Aug 2013 07:39 | Comments Michael Conlan (L) against Andrew Selby during January's 50-56kg bout in the World Series of Boxing Michael Conlan might be forgiven for wishing he had seen the back of his flyweight rival Andrew Selby. In each of his three previous meetings with the Welshman, Ireland's Olympic bronze medallist has come up agonisingly short, but he cannot help keeping his fingers crossed for a fourth bout at the World Championships in Kazakhstan in October. The Falls Road 21-year-old has become a big name in Belfast after returning from last year's London Olympics with a bronze medal in the bag - ironically, an event in which world number one Selby fell out at the quarter-final stage. Conlan said: