C'Wealth Games: Irish fighter Paddy Barnes bored by boxing

Irish light flyweight boxer Paddy Barnes reached the Commonwealth Games quarter-finals on Thursday before revealing he found the sport a bit of a bore.       

"It is just holding, jabbing and moving," said the Ulsterman, who won bronze for Ireland at the Beijing Olympics. "It is boring. I really don't like any sport." 

Barnes, representing Northern Ireland in New Delhi, beat Scotland's Iain Butcher at the Talkatora Indoor Stadium on Thursday.

"I had to move him around a lot. Take nothing away from him, he tried his heart out," Barnes said.