The management team behind Scottish boxer Mike Towell, who died on Friday following a televised bout, has said it was not aware of any headache complaints by the fighter before the match.

Chris Eubank Jnr understands why his father would want to pull him out of a fight if he was taking the same kind of punishment as Nick Blackwell — but as a “warrior” could never agree with the decision.

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’Youth Hostelling with Chris Eubank’ has just become a reality!

Gary ‘Spike’ O’Sullivan is hoping to fly the Cork flag high above Thomond Park on September 19 and secure a world title shot against the winner of the main event in the process.

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The IBF super-bantamweight champion successfully defended his world title on Saturday night, stopping 25-year-old Californian challenger Chris Avalos (25-3) in the fifth round to extend his undefeated record to 20-0 (14 knockouts).

Boxing: British 2008 Olympian Billy Joe Saunders has pocketed a six-figure sum to step aside and allow Andy Lee defend his WBO middleweight title against Peter "Kid Chocolate" Quillin in New York.

Promoter Frank Warren is ready to bring world championship boxing back to Ireland this summer should he arrange a deal to promote a showdown between WBO champion Andy Lee and Billy Joe Saunders. 

Gary ‘Spike’ O’Sullivan wants to follow the path of Steve Collins and Andy Lee by booking a world-title shot Stateside with his next fight set for Madison Square Garden.

Tyson Fury "couldn’t give a hoot" what people think of him as a boxer but vowed to prove his worth in the ring against Dereck Chisora tonight.

Gary ‘Spike’ O’Sullivan will be back in big-time boxing action next month after the announcement that his fight with Anthony Fitzgerald has been rescheduled for November 15.

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UFC’s Irish star Conor McGregor is enjoying the spoils of his rise to fame but won’t be letting his focus waver as he seeks a title fight sooner rather later, writes Brendan O’Brien

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Steve Collins, Ireland’s former middleweight and super middleweight champion, insisted yesterday that his long-cherished grudge fight with Roy Jones Jr. needs only the American’s nod to go ahead.

A Labour MP has accepted “very substantial” damages from The Sun after the tabloid admitted its staff accessed private information from her stolen mobile phone three years ago, London’s High Court heard yesterday.

Steve Collins says he’s as “fit as a flea” as he gets ready for a “15-year grudge match” with Roy Jones.

Almost 18-years ago the whole nation was screaming as one of their own fought to become a world champion.

Tyson Fury’s camp are touting Croke Park or Old Trafford as possible venues for a world title fight with one of the Klitschko brothers if Fury beats Kevin “Kingpin” Johnson at the Odyssey Arena in Belfast tonight.

Chris Eubank has revealed he dreams of a return to boxing.

Manchester United footballer Ryan Giggs has settled his phone-hacking damages claim against News Group Newspapers.

A coroner has returned an open verdict into the inquest into the death of Irish boxer Darren Sutherland today, confirmed the cause of death as hanging.

A boxing promoter said he had no idea why Irish boxer Darren Sutherland would have been frightened of him, an inquest has heard.

BIG-TIME boxing returns to the Green Glens Arena in Millstreet on December 10 when Rylane Boxing Club combine with the Garda Boxing Club to stage a show that will be built around the annual visit of the NYPD to box a Garda selection.

ANDY MURRAY not only wants to win tonight’s Irish lightweight title fight with Oisin ‘Gael Force’ Fagan when they headline the Yanjing Fight Night at the National Stadium in Dublin – he wants to do it with style.

STEVE COLLINS was back on some old, familiar territory in Cork last night to receive another belt, this time at Neptune Stadium where his brother, Paschal, was promoting the Irish middleweight title fight between Corkman Gary “Sp.ike” O’Sullivan and Ciaran Healy.

Former world champion boxer Steve Collins was told today he will stand retrial later this year on a charge of assaulting a bouncer.

FORMER world boxing champion Steve Collins is alleged to have told a security man “you have two seconds to move” and threatened to put his teeth on the floor, the first day of his trial heard.

ENZO CALZAGHE has pledged his son Joe will not fall at the last hurdle of his professional career when he faces Roy Jones Jr at Madison Square Garden early tomorrow morning.

HAD Andrew Murray taken the medical advice offered him, he would never have donned a pair of boxing gloves. But, do date, he has won three national senior titles as an amateur and, as a professional, holds the Irish light welterweight belt.

PASCHAL COLLINS predicts a big future for Corkman Gary ‘Spike’ O’Sullivan ahead of his pro debut, the undercard to the Billy Walsh/James Gorman Irish welterweight title fight at Neptune Stadium tomorrow night.

BILLY WALSH admitted yesterday that he was irked by the suggestion from Belfast opponent James Gorman that he only had temporary custody of the All-Ireland welterweight championship belt.

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.