Freeport's Patrick Day, Long Beach's Seanie Monaghan have big fights in back-to-back weeks

On Monday, Oct. 22, Freeport's Patrick Day and Seanie Monaghan, from Long Beach, who both train with Joe Higgins at Freeport PAL Boxing, talked about their upcoming possibly career-altering boxing matches. Day will be fighting Elvin Ayala for the World Boing Council Continental Americas super welterweight title at Madison Square Garden on Saturday, Oct. 27. Monaghan will be fighting Sullivan Barrera in a light heavyweight bout at the Aviator Sports Complex in Brooklyn on Saturday, Nov. 3, which he and Higgins hope will earn Monaghan a shot at the world title. Credit: Newsday / Shelby Knowles