Callum Walsh isn’t tired of all the attention yet.
“Nah, it's all right,” he laughs in between training sessions at the Wild Card Boxing gym in Hollywood, California. The unbeaten junior middleweight prospect is still a few weeks out from his return to Ireland for this Friday’s meeting with Przemyslaw Runowski at 3Arena in Dublin, but if there were going to be any nerves for the headliner, they’re not visible.
Then again, the Cork native has always been cool under pressure in the ring and equally confident outside the ropes. That type of demeanor makes champions and stars in this business, and that’s what the 23-year-old has been aiming for since he first put on the gloves as a youngster.