“Hands were made for hitting people,” Mickey Duff once argued. Then again, he would have said that, wouldn’t he? asks Brendan O’Brien.

It wasn’t until that last fight in Brooklyn that Andy Lee realised just how true some words of that neighbourhood’s most famous and notorious son really were.

British boxing's most successful trainer has blasted Lennox Lewis for his "totally stupid" preparations prior to his April defeat to Hasim Rahman in South Africa.