Andy Lee has warned Billy Joe Saunders that he is still yet to produce his best in the ring and suggested that he may look for a first round knockout in their world title fight.

Andy Lee’s big showdown with Peter ‘Kid Chocolate’ Quillin is now a non-title fight after the American failed to make the weight limit.

Winning a world championship was a dream for Andy Lee, all the more so after two major career-threatening defeats and then the passing of his legendary mentor Emanuel ‘Manny’ Steward. 

Forget being tired in the ring, Ireland’s newest world champion, Limerick boxer Andy Lee, must be exhausted with his seemingly endless homecoming.

Tyson Fury is Wladimir Klitschko’s mandatory challenger but he doubts whether the Ukrainian has the courage to face him as he fears being knocked out.

Andy Lee and Adam Booth were in New York with Cork-Cuban heavyweight Mike Perez last July, but if feels much longer now, writes John Riordan.

You would have to go a long way before you find anybody with a bad word to say about Andy Lee.

IT SEEMED wholly appropriate that Andy Lee landed the punch that clinched this world title, the very same belt won by Steve Collins 20 years ago, moments after he had been rocked himself.

Ireland's Andy Lee became the WBO middleweight champion after a memorable night in Las Vegas.

Dressed in a black tracksuit with matching baseball cap, Andy Lee looks out from the vast balcony in his penthouse suite at the Las Vegas Cosmopolitan.

Andy Lee has described his world title eliminator in Madison Square Gardens tonight as the "make or break" moment of his career.

Irish middleweight Andy Lee will face Anthony Fitzgerald at Belfast’s Odyssey Arena on February 9.

The bond between a boxer and his coach is one forged in sweat and blood over countless training sessions.

The art of boxing is a study of a lifetime, one which you can practise everyday but never fully master.

Lennox Lewis yesterday spoke of being “completely devastated” by the death of revered trainer Emanuel Steward.

Lennox Lewis has spoken of his devastation at the death of long-time trainer Emanuel Steward.

Legendary trainer Emanuel Steward has demanded that boxing chiefs tackle the growing use of performance enhancing drugs in the sports.

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.

While literary aficionados will be celebrating Bloomsday around the world today, middleweight Andy Lee (28-1, 20 KOs) will try to add his own chapter in the tome of Irish boxing history when he challenges Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (45-0-1, 31 KOs) for his WBC title in El Paso, Texas (4am, Sunday morning, Irish time).

WHEN Matthew Macklin challenges Sergio Martinez for his WBC Diamond and Ring Magazine belts at the MSG Theatre in New York on St Patrick’s Day, Andy Lee will have more than a passing interest in the fight.

“HONESTLY, I don’t think it’ll go much past four rounds.”

David Haye is confident he will fight Vitali Klitschko later this year after he has "smashed" his brother Wladimir on Saturday.

Wladimir Klitschko has warned David Haye he will have the last laugh as he shrugged off his opponent’s latest “childish” publicity stunts.

ANDY LEE rescued the fight — if not his entire career — when he floored Scotland’s Craig McEwan with a ferocious left hand to the head less than a minute into the final round of their 10-round middleweight fight at the Foxwoods Casino in Mashantucket, Connecticut.

ANDY LEE and John Duddy could touch gloves sooner rather than later if the Derryman rises to the challenge thrown out by the Limerick southpaw yesterday.

WORLD Champion Katie Taylor is to top the bill at the Rochestown Park Hotel in Cork on November 6 when a Garda Síochána selection host the NYPD.

MIGUEL COTTO claimed he had answered his critics after stopping Yuri Foreman in the ninth round of their fight at Yankee Stadium to claim the WBA light-middleweight title.

THIRTY FOUR years after boxing’s last headline act at Yankee Stadium saw Muhammad Ali handed a controversial points victory over Ken Norton, the sport is preparing to return to the venue tomorrow night.

ANDY LEE will fight for the European middleweight title in Limerick later this year, according to promoter Brian Peters.

ANDY LEE will come face to face with Saturday night’s big fight opponent, Mamadou Thiam, for the first time today when they both workout at the Crescent Shopping Centre in Limerick (12 noon-2pm).

TRAINER Freddie Roach has put Floyd Mayweather Jr firmly in his sights as the next opponent for his victorious charge Manny Pacquiao.

ANDY LEE takes the biggest step of his career when he meets the French and European Union middleweight champion, Affif Belghecham, in what could turn out to be an eliminator for a European title fight at the UL Sports Arena in Limerick on November 14.

ANDY LEE faces a familiar foe at The 02 this night week when he takes on former European title challenger Alex Sipos on the Hunky Dorys World Title Fight Night.

JOHN DUDDY flies into Miami this morning to begin a training camp for a fight he hopes will tee up a long-awaited world title shot.

MIGUEL COTTO will seek to make his case as boxing’s new top fighter when he takes on Mexican Antonio Margarito at the MGM Grand Garden Arena tonight.

ANDY LEE is aiming to produce a knockout performance against Willie Gibbs at the UL Arena tonight which will put the Limerick man back into contention for a world title shot.

BOTH Andy Lee and Willie ‘The Gladiator’ Gibbs promised to end Saturday night’s Ladbrokes.com showdown at the UL Arena by knockout when they squared up before hundreds of fight fans at a public training session in Limerick yesterday.

HALL of Fame trainer Emanuel Steward has promised Andy Lee will come back a better, stronger fighter after his shock first defeat as a professional last weekend.

IRISH middleweight Andy Lee has been assured his promotional deal with the Top Rank organisation remains intact following the first defeat of his professional career.

Limerick's Andy Lee suffered his first defeat as a professional boxer in the early hours of this morning as Brian Vera shocked him into a seventh round stoppage at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut.

ANDY LEE is determined to ignore talk of a major promotional deal with Top Rank and concentrate on making an impression in the ring as he makes his US national television debut tonight.

THE damage John Duddy sustained to his left eye looks certain to rule out the June 7 world title fight with Kelly Pavlik and, while Bob Arum is already looking around for a replacement, Andy Lee insisted yesterday that he won’t be rushing his world title ambitions.