Dundalk transplant Timmy Egan’s bid for Kevin Torres’s 165-pound Six Borough Championship [SBC] ended in a brave, albeit unanimous three-round loss at the Stereo Garden in Patchogue, Long Island, last Saturday.
There were no knockdowns in the amateur bout as Torres, who's 20 and an aggressive body puncher from the Hill Street Boxing Club in Southampton, outworked Egan, a late bloomer at age 31, who appeared to land the cleaner head shots.
“It was close. He was good,” conceded Egan. “I landed a lot of good clean shots, but he was a lot more active. He caught me in the first round with a nice body shot [that] kind of slowed me up a bit.
“The way I was fighting, I was going forward as engaging with him. But then when he was coming, he was coming for my body a lot. So, I was constantly going back onto the ropes, like defending my body. But he wasn't like hitting me, he was [hitting] my arms and my guard, but he was more aggressive.”
Still, Egan, the 2025 MSG Boxing Ring Masters novice champion whose amateur record dropped to 9-4, took away positives from the experience. “It was good, I had a great time. It was a great event and yeah, it was fun.”
And there might be an Egan-Torres rematch sooner rather than later. “I might have to fight him again in the Ring Masters now, which starts this Friday,” Egan told the Echo last weekend.
Egan and Torres, the latter now a three-time SBC champion, are among seven fighters in contention in the 2026 MSG Boxing Ring Masters 165-pound Open division. A vast contrast to last year when Egan topped a field of 35 to win the 165-pound Novice title.
“They’re all 18, 19 and 20 years old,” Egan, a late bloomer, said of his other Open class opponents.
“Which is good because I'm going to get a lot of good experience now. All these young guys, they all are miles ahead of me with the amount of fights they have. I'm happy because [Saturday night against Torres] was obviously a test. And I stuck it out with him. I did three rounds with him and I didn’t feel fazed, other than the fact that he has a really nice [and well timed] body shot.”
Donal Ward, Egan’s trainer and the Bua Boxing Club proprietor, said the Torres fight was a good experience for his charge. “That’s probably the best fighter he's fought so far.”
“It was a tough fight,” Ward, a Roscommon native, added. “[Torres] was clearly more experienced. He was younger, he was tougher, but Timmy did well, he lasted well, he fought well and he picked off a lot of clean shots.
“Kevin was probably the more aggressive fighter, pushing Timmy back. We felt that Timmy picked off some good shots and he counterpunched well. He kind of blocked and made him miss, then he picked him off. But he probably just didn’t do enough [of that]. When he picked him off he should have been more aggressive and again and pushed him back.”
WALSH BACK
Following a dominating 2025, “King” Callum Walsh [15-0, 11 KOs] returns to Las Vegas to face the most experienced opponent of his career in Mexican knockout artist Carlos Ocampo. Their 10-rounder at the Meta APEX headlines the inaugural Zuffa Boxing event. Paramount + will stream the card starting at 9 p.m. EST.
“The first Zuffa Boxing event is filled with the best up-and-coming talent, hungry and excited to prove that they will be future world champions,” said UFC President and CEO Dana White. “The top three fights feature four fighters who are undefeated, including 15-0 Callum Walsh as he takes on the 38-3 Carlos Ocampo, who has more knockout victories than Callum has total professional fights and his last three wins have come by knockout. I’m looking forward to bringing great fighters and incredible fights back to fight fans.”
