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Mickey McDonagh

Welsh boxer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ66459277 ↗
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Michael "Mickey" McDonagh (born 18 August 1998) is a British amateur boxer who is affiliated with Merlin's Bridge ABC. He won lightweight bronze in the 2018 Commonwealth Games.

McDonagh was selected to compete at the 2019 World Championships in Yekaterinburg, Russia, where he lost by split decision (4:0) to Thomas Blumenfeld in the first round.

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“Mickey McDonagh” enters the record as welsh boxer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Mickey, McDonagh and Welsh can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1998, 2018, 2019—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1998-08-18. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Mickey, McDonagh and Welsh.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q66459277. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1998, 2018 and 2019.

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This entry incorporates text from “Mickey McDonagh” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.