Andy Lee may be forced to scrap his plans for a world-title defence as his mandatory challenger Billy Joe Saunders has stepped up his efforts to book a date with the champion.

Bryant ‘Peewee’ Cruz’s life changed when a local policeman took him off the Port Chester streets and hand delivered him to a boxing gym called Champs in New Rochelle, just north of New York City.

Andy Lee’s brave challenge to win the WBC world middleweight title came up short in the early hours of Sunday morning when beaten by Julio Cesar Chavez Jr by TKO in the seventh round at the Sun Bowl in El Paso, Texas.

DERMOT WELD’S Endearing could be ready to deliver and gets the nap in the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Fillies Maiden at Dundalk tonight.

SAAJIDAH’S convincing victory in the featured fillies handicap proved the highlight of a sparkling treble for Declan McDonogh at rain-sodden Roscommon last evening.

THE war of words between Amir Khan and Paulie Malignaggi developed into chaos at the weigh-in yesterday ahead of their WBA light-welterweight title fight at Madison Square Garden.

The war of words between Amir Khan and Paulie Malignaggi developed into chaos at the weigh-in today ahead of their WBA light-welterweight title fight at Madison Square Garden.

Former undisputed middleweight champion Jermain Taylor is eyeing up a super-middleweight showdown with Joe Calzaghe, according to the American’s promoter.