BEATEN All-Ireland finalists O’Loughlin-Gaels are the only team with a 100% record in the two groups of the Kilkenny Senior League after three rounds.

FAVOURITES Carrickshock survived the sternest of tests from Erin’s Own (Castlecomer) in the first of the semi finals of the Kilkenny SHC at Nowlan Park yesterday before emerging victorious by a two-point margin.

MAMADOU THIAM, the Senegal-born knock-out specialist, went to the scales for yesterday’s weigh-in at the George Hotel with a warning for Limerick’s Andy Lee in advance of tonight’s Yanjing Fight night at the UL Arena.

Limerick boxer Andy Lee has nearly 2lbs on his opponent Mamadou Thiam at today's weigh-in for Saturday's Yanjing Fight Night in Limerick.

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).

ANDY LEE meets his toughest opponent so far in Senegal-born knockout specialist, Mamadou Thiam, for his May 15 assignment at the University Arena in Limerick.

World and European Lightweight Champion Katie Taylor is the latest addition to the Yanjing Fight Night at the University Sports Arena, Limerick, on Saturday, May 15.

LUKE THOMAS benefited from training alongside the three Cork-based Cuban professionals when he won his third successive national juvenile boxing title at the National Stadium last week.

WHEN Affif Belgecham, the European Union middleweight champion, arrived in Limerick on Thursday for tonight’s fight with Andy Lee at the University Arena, he was quick to point out that he wanted to make it a big double for France, whose footballers meet Ireland earlier in the evening at Croke Park in the crucial World Cup play-off.

TYSON FURY may be the new English heavyweight champion but he left nobody in any doubt about his Irish roots when he made his Dublin debut at the O2 on Saturday night.

WBA Super Bantamweight champion Bernard Dunne is leaving no stone unturned as he enters the final stages of preparations for his first World title defence at the O2 Arena later this month.

CUBAN pair Alexei Acosta and Luis Garcia, will enjoy star billing at tonight’s boxing/dinner show in the Silversprings Hotel in Cork but the Irish pair of Gary “Spike” O’Sullivan from across the river in Mahon and Jamie Power from Limerick are sure to claim their share of the limelight.

MIKE ‘The Rebel’ Perez is being treated for a dislocated shoulder and will miss tomorrow night’s dinner/boxing show at the Moran Silversprings Hotel in Cork. However, fans can expect fireworks from classy super-bantamweight Alexei Acosta when he tops the bill for the first time.

HARRY DUIVEN Junior, a heavyweight from Amsterdam, plans to succeed where others have failed by putting an end to the unblemished record of Mike “The Rebel” Perez at the dinner-show at the Silversprings Moran Hotel in Cork tonight.

FIVE minutes into the second-half of the second Kilkenny SHC semi-final in yesterday’s double-header at Nowlan Park, it looked like a shock (pardon the pun) was on the cards as Carrickshock took a surprise if well-merited one-point lead.

TWENTY seconds and one punch — that was all it took for Mike “The Rebel” Perez to demolish the 19 stone Brazilian, Claudemir Diaz, at Neptune Stadium on Saturday night.

MIKE “The Rebel” Perez is all set to dispel any doubts about his ambitions when he takes his professional boxing career to a new level at Neptune Stadium on Saturday night.

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.

MIKE ‘The Rebel’ Perez, a former world junior champion, will headline the most exciting professional boxing show ever staged in Cork where he will be joined by two other Cuban-born world junior champions on another Nowhere to Hyde bill at Neptune Stadium on September 13.

A RETIRED Limerick-born priest who ministered to murderers on death row in the US last night recalled his “worst nightmare” encounter with criminals.

ARTHUR McDONAGH will top the bill when Fermoy ABC honour the memory of their late president and founder-member John Mahon with a special memorial boxing tournament at St Coleman’s Sports Hall on Sunday (3pm).

Kildangan (Tipperary) 2-13 Carrickshock (Kilkenny) 1-13

Kilkenny boss Brian Cody has named his panel for the upcoming National Hurling League.

BIG time boxing comes to Youghal tomorrow night when the St. Colman’s Club from Shanagarry move from their spiritual home Garryvoe to stage their annual showpiece at 7.30 pm.