Walsh hits bright lights of Vegas after working on Ireland’s docks

Super welterweight will risk an undefeated record against Vargas at Allegiant Stadium.

- EPUARP CAVICH

DAVID BECKER Getty Images for Netflix CALLUM WALSH attends a Canelo vs. Crawford prefight event held by Netflix on Wednesday in Las Vegas.

Callum Walsh knows what it means to earn a living with his hands. Before throwing hooks and jabs in the ring, he spent his days lifting cargo on fishing boats in the port of Cobh, under the cold Atlantic wind in his native Ireland.

He was only 16, but he already understood hard work. Today, at 24, he continues to work just as hard, although his stage has changed — now he does it under the bright lights of a boxing ring.

On Saturday at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, Walsh (14-0, 11 KOs) will have the night he always dreamed of.

He will fight on the comain event of a card headlined by Satil “Canelo” Alvarez and Terence Crawford, a huge platform for his young career, and it will be broadcast on Netflix, where he will risk his undefeated record in a 10-round super welterweight bout against another hungry youngster, Fernando Vargas Jr. (17-0, 15 KOs), heir to the surname of a former world champion.