Who knows what’s going through Mike Perez’s head this week?

Bryant ‘Peewee’ Cruz’s life changed when a local policeman took him off the Port Chester streets and hand delivered him to a boxing gym called Champs in New Rochelle, just north of New York City.

Irish middleweight Andy Lee has thrown down the gauntlet to Matthew Macklin to face him in 2014.

The look on Andy Lee’s face when the referee called a halt to his bout with Ferenc Hafner, after just 1 minute and 19 seconds of round two, said it all about the man’s current level of ambition.

He’d won over the judges but Danny O’Connor’s face and entire demeanour seemed more like a swollen tribute to some sort of courageous defeat.

A confident Andy Lee insisted yesterday he will be patient during tonight’s return to the ring in New York against Detroit’s Darryl Cunningham.

All in all, it hasn’t been a bad weekend for boxing Stateside.

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.

I WON’T dwell on Simon Zebo here.

IT WAS a low point for Matthew “Mack the Knife” Macklin.

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.

JOHN DUDDY’S former manager Craig Hamilton last night described the Derry boxer who retired on Tuesday night as “a true ambassador for the sport he loves and a world class person”.

THE war of words between Amir Khan and Paulie Malignaggi developed into chaos at the weigh-in yesterday ahead of their WBA light-welterweight title fight at Madison Square Garden.

The war of words between Amir Khan and Paulie Malignaggi developed into chaos at the weigh-in today ahead of their WBA light-welterweight title fight at Madison Square Garden.

Amir Khan has confirmed he hopes to make his US debut against Paulie Malignaggi at New York’s Madison Square Gardens on May 15.

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.

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