Billy Walsh, the former head coach of the Irish Boxing High Performance Unit, has revealed that he has not been made any offer to return to his old job and doesn’t think “the sport in Ireland would want me back anyway”.
Following a disappointing performance at the Rio Olympic Games that saw Irish boxers returning without any medals, calls have been made for Walsh to be reinstated to his former role at the IABA.
Speaking to South East Radio, the Wexford man said: “There’s nothing that can’t be solved or resolved or there’s nothing that I wouldn’t sit down and take a look at and consider it.
"I’d sit down and talk to anybody but at the moment there isn’t anything there and I’m quite happy where I am and that’s where my foreseeable future is."
Walsh also denied claims that he was tipped to take a role at the Irish Institute of Sport.
“There’s speculation about me having a job back in Dublin when Gary Keegan is resigning and that I was going to take over, but the first I heard of it was when it was in the paper,” he said.
He insists that he is happy in his current role as coach of the USA Boxing team and wants to realise his ambitions for Tokyo 2020.
“I’ve a mission. I’ve a big challenge. I want to try and make the USA one of the best teams in the world and I want to try and do that by Tokyo, and that’s where my focus is at the moment.”
“Obviously I’m Irish and since seven years of age I’ve been involved with Irish boxing and it’s been one of the loves of my life and I’ll always have an interest and have great emotion and affection for it but obviously I’m contracted now to the States for another few years and that’s where my immediate future is.”
