Bemer is a bantamweight figure with piercing blue eyes and a manner at once cordial and appraising.
McGoldrick, 18, lost the bantamweight final on countback but the Sri Lankan has tested positive for nandrolone.
The win boosts Dunne's hopes of taking on European super bantamweight champion Michael Hunter later this year.
Thirty years ago, the boy from the Gellideg estate challenged Mexican Lupe Pintor for his WBC Bantamweight belt.
McMann-Gaff was the third female bantamweight bout in the UFC, all this year.
The bout will be the chief supporting contest to Bernard Dunne's European super-bantamweight title defence against Spain's Kiko Martinez.
On the same bill, Mexico's Rafael Marquez retained his IBF bantamweight title with a third-round knockout of Heriberto Ruiz.
The Welsh bantamweight lost 16-11 to the hard-hitting visitor at Cardiff International Arena.
Most of it was based on the urban myth that Palin is small-town, small-state bantamweight (Maureen Dowd and countless others).
Bantamweight Gamal Yafai joined his brother Khalid in the semis, as did lightweight Thomas Stalker and Welsh bantamweight Andrew Selby.
He returned to win the British super-bantamweight title having previously been a British champion at flyweight, as well the Commonwealth title-holder.
British boxer Noel Wilders took the vacant European bantamweight title with a convincing points victory over Frenchman Fabien Guillerme in Nice.
Donaire, the WBO super-bantamweight champion, received the prestigious Fighter of the Year award from the Boxing Writers Association of America on Thursday.
Medal hopes are pinned on Nomura Tadahiro, 24, who took the men's bantamweight title at the World Championship in Paris last year.
The Zambian national, based in London, is the first boxer to die after a fight in the UK since bantamweight James Murray in 1995.
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Rigondeaux's speed appeared to be too much for Donaire (31-2), who was trying to defend his WBO super bantamweight belt for the fifth time.
As well as Yafai and Weaver, lightweight Tom Stalker won silver, while Yafai's younger brother Gamal and Welshman Andrew Selby both took bantamweight bronze.
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Greg Rutherford became the first British athlete to win gold in the long-jump since 1964, while boxer Luke Campbell won gold in the bantamweight division.
The fans' apathy was alarmingly underlined on Sunday ahead of Bernard Dunne's successful defence of his European super bantamweight title in front of his home crowd in Dublin.
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Rigondeaux is currently the WBA super-bantamweight champion (122-pound limit).
Carruth and long-time friend McCullogh were team-mates representing Ireland at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona where McCullough, from County Antrim, took silver in the bantamweight division and Carruth, from Dublin, won gold at welterweight.
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By 1980 Merthyr-legend Owen had won the British, Commonwealth and European bantamweight titles, before the painfully shy, hugely popular 24-year-old headed to Los Angeles' 10, 000-seat Olympic Auditorium to face the formidable WBC world champion Pintor.
Although Faber has a huge fan following after dominating the now-defunct WEC, he was just 2-2 since moving to the UFC two years ago, dropping narrow decisions to bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz and Renan Barao.
Former UFC champion Lyoto Machida won a lackluster split decision over 42-year-old veteran Dan Henderson on the undercard at Honda Center, and bantamweight Urijah Faber beat Ivan Menjivar with an acrobatic rear naked choke late in the first round.
"When you're number one in the world, the smaller fights don't mean anything so you're not going to do the proper training and eat the right food and do the right things, " said McCullough, a former bantamweight world champion.
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