An animal rights group is fighting for chimpanzees in the US to be given rights as legal people so they are ensured better treatment.

A US animal rights group has filed what it said is the first lawsuit seeking to establish the “legal personhood” of chimpanzees.

One punch, that’s all it took, one punch so short and so sharp that many in the raucous partisan 4,000 crowd in Belfast’s fabulous Odyssey Arena missed it.

Carl Frampton hopes an impressive victory in the Odyssey Arena tonight will help secure a coveted world title shot.

Kiko Martinez made it to Belfast for fight week at the third time of asking, and at yesterday’s ‘Unfinished Business’ press conference vowed he won’t be leaving the city without his European title.

WILLIE ‘Big Bang’ Casey could be the ideal opponent for the two-time Olympic champion Guillermo Rigondeaux, according to the Cuban’s manager Gary Hyde.

WILLIE ‘BIG BANG’ CASEY will headline a big professional boxing show at Neptune Stadium, Cork, in January.

BARRY McGUIGAN wants the winner of Saturday night’s all-Irish European title fight between Willie Casey and Paul Hyland to give Carl Frampton a shot at the belt.

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.

WILLIE CASEY will provide Kiko Martinez with an opportunity to explore the “Big Bang” theory when he challenges the Spaniard for his new European super bantamweight belt on what will be an historic night’s boxing at the University Sports Arena in Limerick on November 6.

PAUL HYLAND could hardly be blamed if he has one eye on the European title fight involving teak tough little Spaniard Kiko Martinez and Arsen Martyrosian, an Armenian who has based himself in France, at The National Stadium on Saturday night.

WILLIE “Big Bang” Casey says he is the one who’ll be gunning for Kiko Martinez once he takes care of business tomorrow night against Italian super bantamweight, Emiliano Salvini, at CityWest Hotel where Dolphil Promotions stage a 10-fight card with Limerick’s Prizefighter top of the bill.

KIKO MARTINEZ is all set to return to Dublin in a bid to reclaim the European super bantamweight title that he took from Bernard Dunne at the old Point three years ago, and he said yesterday that he is hoping his achievement in winning back the title will lure the Dubliner out of retirement for a return fight.

IT’S AN indication of what an instant hit Federico ‘Kiko’ Macheda has been with Reds that we are already scrambling about trying to knock up a song or two for him.

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BERNARD DUNNE admits he will be the underdog but he insisted yesterday he is prepared to go to the gates of hell and back if that’s what it takes to strip Ricardo Cordoba of his WBA world super bantamweight title at Dublin’s O2 on March 21.

Former European champion Bernard Dunne will head 'into the west' for his return to the ring on the Hunky Dorys Fight Night at the International Events Arena, Breaffy House Resort in Castlebar, County Mayo on April 12.

BERNARD DUNNE will be more than an interested spectator at the Kings Hall in Belfast on Saturday night when Wayne McCullough relaunches his boxing career against Kiko Martinez.

Spaniard Kiko Martinez lived up to his nickname of "La Sensacion" by scoring a stunning first round knock out of home favourite Bernard Dunne at a packed out Point Depot last night.

AS far as co-promoter Pat Magee is concerned, the controversy instigated by Kiko Martinez ahead of his tilt at Bernard Dunne’s European super bantamweight title at the Point in Dublin on August 25, is now closed.

HE’S Spanish, calls himself La Sensación and is unbeaten in 56 fights as an amateur and professional with 51 of those wins coming by knockout.

Japan’s Princess Kiko has developed complications with her pregnancy and may have to give birth to her third child by Caesarean section, Kyodo News agency reported.