Conor McGregor could hardly have done more to make New York sit up and take notice, writes Brendan O’Brien

We are just days away to the biggest fight in UFC history, writes Ciaran O'Flynn for the Irish Examiner.

Q: Why did you choose the hard life of professional boxing?

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. 

Twitter was chomping at the bit to react to Uruguayan striker Luis Suarez apparently biting Italy’s Georgio Chiellini.

When GAA Director General Páraic Duffy wrote in his annual report that the biting incident during Donegal and Dublin’s league game in April was one of the year’s lows he could not have anticipated the reaction that was to follow.

Boy George has hit out at Evander Holyfield for his homophobic comments that were aired on Celebrity Big Brother last night.

Celebrity Big Brother contestant Evander Holyfield has been warned by the show after claiming being gay “ain’t normal”.

'Neighbours' star Alan Fletcher is set to star in 'Celebrity Big Brother'.

Former world heavyweight champion boxer and convicted rapist Mike Tyson has been forced to scrap appearances in London after discovering he is banned from entering the UK.

With enough money, anything is possible. Even reconciling Mike Tyson and the man whose ear he bit off 16 years ago.

Not for the squeamish: What being 'out injured' really means.

No other sport throws up tragic figures quite like boxing.

Mike Tyson believes Liverpool striker Luis Suarez will make up with Branislav Ivanovic – just as the former world boxing champion did with Evander Holyfield.

Is Luis Suarez biting another player impossible to defend? Apparently not…

Mike Tyson doesn't recognise the "insane" man he used to be.

After winning the respect of Lennox Lewis, Evander Holyfield, and a host of other boxing greats, Katie Taylor has been urged to rejoin another women’s sporting revolution — in soccer.

I’m torn, really torn, about this game.

Mike Tyson wants his next knockout to be on Broadway.

HE lights dim and the audience is hushed. Former middleweight contender Bobby Cassidy is led to the front of the stage.

If you’re a boxer, you already know what the fight is about. If you turn pro, you have to learn the ins-and-outs.

THE Cain train drives on.

A DREAM ending to the perfect fairytale would see Willie “Big Bang” Casey claim the belt at the Citywest Conference Centre tonight but even the Limerick man’s combination of heart, strength and a defiant attitude is unlikely to strip Guillermo Rigondeaux of his WBA world super bantamweight title.

WILLIE “Big Bang” Casey is about to face the best 122 lb puncher of all time.

THERE’S this fat ten year old boy whose mother is forced to come to live in the tough black ghetto of Brownsville in Brooklyn in the Seventies.

Former world heavyweight champion John Ruiz has announced his retirement from the ring after an 18-year professional career that ended in a title defeat to David Haye earlier this month.

David Haye dismantled John Ruiz to make a successful first defence of his WBA world heavyweight title in a brutal showdown at the MEN Arena.

DAVID HAYE is determined to issue an explosive reminder of his all-action style by making a “big statement” against John Ruiz tonight.

Evander Holyfield’s wife has accused the boxer of hitting her several times and has received a temporary protective order against him.

OPRAH WINFREY yesterday announced that her daytime television show will end its run in 2011after 25 seasons on the air.

Mike Tyson allegedly hit a photographer at Los Angeles International Airport and was booked and released on suspicion of battery yesterday, police said.

Mike Tyson has “no regrets” about his savage and controversial career.

MICKEY HARTE compared this Ulster semi-final to a chess match, but the longest game in that sedentary sport’s history was a sleep-inducing 20-hour marathon that would knock spots off this tie in terms of excitement.

Nikolai Valuev will face Ruslan Chagaev in a much-anticipated rematch for the WBA heavyweight belt in Finland on May 30.

Evander Holyfield failed narrowly to become the oldest heavyweight champion of all time as Nikolai Valuev clinched a close majority decision in Switzerland.

THERE ARE at least 125 million reasons why the former undisputed world heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield should not be preparing to lace on the gloves again at the age of 46.

EVANDER HOLYFIELD should learn next week whether he has secured another shot at the world heavyweight title at the age of 46.

Evander Holyfield will attempt to become the oldest WBA heavyweight champion, according to reports that he has accepted an offer to fight current champion Nikolay Valuev.

CONVICTED Holocaust-denier David Irving dodged a small but noisy protest outside RTÉ studios in Dublin ahead of his Late Late Show appearance last night.

Evander Holyfield claims he could meet old foe Mike Tyson for a third time despite both former undisputed world heavyweight champions being in their 40s.

JOHN DUDDY insisted that a world title fight next year was out of his hands, but it’s looming after his thrilling victory over the former European, British and Commonwealth middleweight champion, Howard Eastman, before a frenzied full house at The Kings Hall in Belfast on Saturday night.

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.

RENOWNED trainer Don Turner is convinced John Duddy will join the likes of Evander Holyfield and Larry Holmes and become his 21st world champion.