Floyd Mayweather insists he will not allow his record $41.5m (€31.2m) purse to become a distraction when he defends his unbeaten record against Mexico’s Saul Alvarez in Las Vegas tonight.

Belfast dynamo Carl Frampton makes the second defence of his Commonwealth super-bantamweight title tonight in Sheffield.

HE may be a late replacement for John Duddy’s most recent opponent, but the cocky Manchester middleweight, Prince Arron, insisted yesterday that he will ambush John Duddy at the National Stadium in Dublin on Saturday night and become heir to the world middleweight throne.