THE spotlight may be on Willie “Big Bang” Casey’s clash with WBA champion Guillermo Rigondeaux tonight but another Irishman, Brian Magee, bids for the IBF world super-middleweight title in Montreal in the early hours of tomorrow morning.

ANDY LEE’S opponent for Saturday’s Yanjing Fight Night at the UL Sports Arena in Limerick failed to show for yesterday’s head to head at the Crescent Shopping Centre in Dooradoyle.

WHEN Affif Belgecham, the European Union middleweight champion, arrived in Limerick on Thursday for tonight’s fight with Andy Lee at the University Arena, he was quick to point out that he wanted to make it a big double for France, whose footballers meet Ireland earlier in the evening at Croke Park in the crucial World Cup play-off.