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John "The Kid" Cooney, a U.K.-based super-featherweight boxer, has died a week after sustaining a brain injury in a championship fight. He was 28. The late boxer's management company, MHD Promotions, ...

Live streaming newscasts, breaking news, weather & original, local programming. Irish boxer John Cooney has died at the age of 28 from brain injuries sustained in a fight, his promoter announced on ...

Irish boxer John Cooney has died a week after being taken into intensive care following his Celtic super-featherweight title defeat to Nathan Howells in Belfast. The death of the 28-year-old Cooney ...

Tributes have been paid to boxer John Cooney who died in hospital a week after undergoing surgery on a brain bleed. The Irish boxer was stopped in the ninth round of his fight against Welshman Nathan ...

The manager of an Irish boxer who remains in critical condition after undergoing emergency brain surgery after a defeat in ...

John Cooney will be laid to rest in his native Co Galway on Friday following his tragic death. The 28-year-old died over the weekend, one week after he was taken to hospital following a fight at the ...

"It will take us all a lifetime to forget how special he was," read a statement announcing the athlete's death John "The Kid" Cooney, a U.K.-based super-featherweight boxer, has died a week after ...

BELFAST, Northern Ireland — Irish boxer John Cooney has died a week after being taken into intensive care following his Celtic super-featherweight title defeat to Nathan Howells in Belfast. The death ...