WILLIE “Big Bang” CASEY will touch gloves with the two-time Olympic champion Guillermo Rigondeaux for the WBA super bantamweight title at the Citywest Conference Centre on January 19 following agreement between the camps.

WILLIE ‘Big Bang’ Casey could be the ideal opponent for the two-time Olympic champion Guillermo Rigondeaux, according to the Cuban’s manager Gary Hyde.

BERNARD DUNNE can fulfil every boxer’s dream by becoming world champion tonight but he will have to produce the performance of his life if he is to strip the WBA world super bantamweight title from Ricardo “El Maestrito” Cordoba before a sell-out crowd at The 02 in Dublin.

JOHN DUDDY will have a new opponent when he headlines the Celtic Tigers bill at the National Stadium on October 20 and matchmaker Tomás Rohan says it may be a man who has fought for a world title.

HIGH Performance Director, Gary Keegan, knows the next call he gets from Andy Lee will be to tell him he has signed professional forms.

LIMERICK boxer Andy Lee appears to have finally signed a professional contract with the legendary Emanuel Steward.

ANDY LEE launches another defence of his national senior middleweight title at the National Stadium tonight, but said yesterday it is going to be no pushover against experienced Athyman, Hugh Joyce (St Michael’s).