Matthew Macklin faces a third world title bid in Connecticut tonight. John Riordan spoke to him in New York City this week.

Nine months on from her golden summer at the Olympics in London, and boxer Katie Taylor’s star shines ever brighter in the eyes of the adoring Irish public.

Steve Collins says he’s as “fit as a flea” as he gets ready for a “15-year grudge match” with Roy Jones.

Ireland’s rugby stars endured a training session with a difference yesterday in the company of some of the country’s elite boxing stars.

Lennox Lewis has spoken of his devastation at the death of long-time trainer Emanuel Steward.

From Upton Park to Páirc Uí Chaoimh — that’s the road Gary ‘Spike’ O’Sullivan is beginning this weekend.

Writer and journalist George Kimball hung on long enough for one last American Independence Day. He died a year ago on Friday.

The Irish players were treated to a private session with Christy Moore last night to help gear them up for a battle with the auld enemy.

THE fight game continues to crumble in the City of Brotherly Love.

THE once-proclaimed “baddest man on the planet” fumbled for words that wouldn’t come. Sylvester Stallone knew exactly what Mike Tyson was feeling.

THERE’S a tale, probably apocryphal, that has long done the rounds of the boxing fraternity which is intended to highlight the depth of rivalry between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier.

PASCHAL COLLINS predicts a big future for Corkman Gary ‘Spike’ O’Sullivan ahead of his pro debut, the undercard to the Billy Walsh/James Gorman Irish welterweight title fight at Neptune Stadium tomorrow 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.

IT took Kevin McBride less than half-an-hour to write his name into boxing legend as the man who sent the once great Mike Tyson spiralling into retirement a broken fighter.

FINE GAEL leader Enda Kenny has criticised the Government for failing to honour a commitment that the new Cork Airport Authority wouldn’t face a start-up debt of over €130 million.

MARVIN LEE, who will top the bill at the Garda v NYPD dinner-show in Cork on St. Patrick’s night, will not know the identity of his opponent until after the Golden Gloves tournament New York.

Lennox Lewis has been built for power and Hasim Rahman for speed in Sunday morning’s title clash in Carnival City.

Prince Naseem Hamed will fight Marco Antonio Barrera on April 7.