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Sean McComb eyes potential all-Irish fight after winning on return to the ring
Sean McComb is open to an all-Irish showdown with recently crowned EBU European super lightweight champion Pierce O'Leary.
The Belfast southpaw made a winning return to action as he fought for the first time in 14 months on Saturday night, beating Argentina's Alexis Nahuel Torres via decision.
McComb hadn't been seen in action since suffering the second defeat of his career very controversially against Arnold Barboza Jr in April of last year, but was very pleased with his performance against Torres in Hull, with referee Mark Lyson scoring the bout 60-54 in his favour.
In a one-sided contest, McComb outboxed his opponent from the off and hurt his eye in the fourth round as the now 13-12-1 fighter struggled with the 32-year-old's silky skills.
Much bigger challenges now lie ahead for 'The Public Nuisance', who revealed Dublin's O'Leary is one name he is interested in facing next.
"We all know I want a rematch with Barboza. We're not going to get it so we'll go the UK route," said McComb.
"We have all the top fighters in the UK. We've got Dalton Smith, Adam Azim, Pierce O'Leary... anyone else around the domestic scene wants it, European wants it, anyone wants it I'm here. I just want to fight the best names in the hat and they're the best names in the hat."
McComb's trainer Pete Taylor commented: "Nobody wants to fight Sean. He's a nightmare for anybody in the world and everybody's avoiding him after the Barboza fight.
"It would have been better off really for us if he got knocked out because people would fight him. Now everybody knows where he belongs because we were robbed. We were robbed that day against BarboZa so this could have started a great journey for us."
Taylor added: "We'll fight anybody and you know, boxers say that 'I'll fight anybody', we actually will fight anybody. Anybody that's out there wants to take the chance, we're there."
