Cork boxer Mike ‘The Rebel’ Perez’s opponent from Saturday night’s bout at Madison Square Garden in New York has been placed in a coma.

THEY may have spent the last three months winding each other up, pouring scorn on their rival’s talents and rubbishing each other’s prospects for success in tonight’s WBC welterweight title fight but if there is one thing that both the Mayweather and Hatton camps agree on, it is that boxing is once again back in the big time.

Leading American cable network HBO have vowed to help make Ricky Hatton “as big a star in the US as he is in Britain”.

Lennox Lewis claims he won't be fighting Mike Tyson on April 6. Then again, he might be.