TWO of the three Cork-based Cuban boxers, Luis ‘El Leon’ Garcia and Mike ‘The Rebel’ Perez will share the limelight with the former undisputed world middleweight champion Jermain Taylor when they feature on the undercard for his return fight against Jessie Nicklow at the Morongo Casino Resort & Spa in Cabazon, California, on Friday night week.

Ricky Hatton’s father will leave it up to his son to decide whether to retire after the Manchester fighter’s comprehensive defeat to Manny Pacquiao this morning.

CARL FROCH is expecting a knockout victory over Jermain Taylor in Connecticut tonight.

Unbeaten Irish boxer John Duddy will face 'Punching Policeman' Sam Hill on November 21 in New York as he makes his transition into a light middleweight contender.

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.

Undefeated Irishman John Duddy is poised for a world title challenge to IBF light-middleweight champion Verno Phillips.

JOE CALZAGHE is ready to shine in the neon glow of the Las Vegas Strip tonight and score a victory which will elevate him to a pantheon inhabited by some of the very best to have laced on gloves.

JOE CALZAGHE is ready to shine in the neon glow of the Las Vegas Strip in the early hours of tomorrow morning and score a victory which will elevate him to a pantheon inhabited by some of the very best to have laced on gloves.

Joe Calzaghe has promised to end Bernard Hopkins' career when the pair clash in their big light-heavyweight showdown in Las Vegas on Saturday night.

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.

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.

JOHN DUDDY’S world title shot against undisputed middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik this summer is set to be rubber-stamped tonight at Madison Square Garden.

KELLY PAVLIK defeated Jermain Taylor for the second time in less than five months on Saturday night, coming on late to earn a unanimous decision in a 12-round bout at the MGM Grand.

KELLY PAVLIK has coped uneasily with the fame which has been foisted upon him since the Youngstown, Ohio hero dethroned Jermain Taylor to claim the world middleweight title last February.

ANDY LEE and John Duddy could touch gloves in a world title decider by November, according to Lee’s handler, Emanuel Steward.

Kelly Pavlik's first defence of his united WBC and WBO world middleweight titles is to come against Ireland's John Duddy on June 7.

AT FIRST glance, 2007 was the year that sport was beset by scandal, controversy and pain. Again.

THE legendary Emanuel Steward predicts Andy Lee will be world champion before the end of 2008.

JOHN DUDDY may thank Jermain Taylor for exercising his rematch clause with Kelly Pavlik in the new year, with a world title shot for the Irish man four months later than expected proving well worth the wait.

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

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.

John Duddy has been hit with a late change of opponent for his headline bout on the next Hunky Dorys Fight Night at the National Stadium on October 20.

JOHN DUDDY will have a new opponent when he headlines the Celtic Tigers bill at the National Stadium on October 20 and matchmaker Tomás Rohan says it may be a man who has fought for a world title.

Kelly Pavlik knocked out Jermain Taylor in the seventh round in Atlantic City last night to claim the WBC and WBO middleweight belts and become undisputed middleweight world champion after a thrilling fight.

Famed American trainer Emanuel Steward has boldly claimed that his Irish protigi Andy Lee will be fighting for a world title belt in 2008.

UNDEFEATED Irish middleweight Andy Lee is training with world middleweight champ Jermain Taylor ahead of his appearance on the Bernard Dunne/Kiko Martinez undercard at the Point in Dublin on August 25.

JOE CALZAGHE has home advantage for his super-fight against Mikkel Kessler with the Millennium Stadium hosting the eagerly awaited showdown on November 3.

HE IS boxing’s longest reigning current world champion and, with 20 defences under his belt, ties legends Larry Holmes and Bernard Hopkins as the fighter with the fourth-longest winning streak in title history.

Joe Calzaghe has confirmed he broke his hand during Saturday’s stoppage victory against Peter Manfredo in Cardiff.

BARRY McGUIGAN has reached a hand out to rising Irish middleweight John Duddy to help the Derryman achieve his goal of a world title.

John Duddy wants a showdown with WBC World middleweight champion Jermain Taylor following his latest eye-catching victory in New York earlier today.

WBO super middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe has given up his IBF title to fight Peter Manfredo in Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium on Saturday 3 March.

ANDY LEE will push back his next fight to late December following the sixth victory of his professional career at Madison Square Garden.

ANDY LEE will push back his next fight to late December following the sixth victory of his professional career at Madison Square Garden.

IRISH middleweight Andy Lee is developing a taste for going home early after taking just over a minute to drop Rodney Freeman and record the third victory of his professional career in Memphis, on Friday night.

ANDY LEE goes into his third professional fight in Memphis tonight confident he can live with the best in the middleweight division.

ANDY LEE will again reap the benefits of signing up with Hall Of Fame trainer Emanuel Steward when he begins training with undisputed world middleweight champion Jermain Taylor in Detroit next week.

KRONK boxing legend Emanuel Steward has pledged to fast-track Andy Lee towards a world middleweight title shot following an impressive professional debut at the weekend.

Howard Eastman has vowed to learn from his early mistakes and finally land a version of the world middleweight title.

Hollywood legend Sylvester Stallone needed urgent medical attention after being knocked unconscious whilst filming a scene for the belated sixth Rocky movie, Rocky Balboa.

Joe Calzaghe, now the longest-serving world champion in boxing, will share the spotlight with Amir Khan when he defends his WBO super-middleweight title at Cardiff International Arena on September 10.

One thing that Wayne McCullough could never be accused of is shirking a challenge.