Floyd Mayweather Sr remembers the moment he discovered his son had a feel for the family business.

You would have to go a long way before you find anybody with a bad word to say about Andy Lee.

Andy Lee is hoping to make a November ring return after narrowly missing out on a world title shot against Miguel Cotto.

Irish favourite Matthew Macklin will hope to secure a fourth shot at a world title when he takes on Jorge Sebastien Heiland in an official eliminator for the WBC middleweight crown at the National Stadium in Dublin on August 30.

Jake Gyllenhaal is reportedly dating Rachel McAdams.

Sergio Martinez is eager to shrug off his injury nightmare and re-establish his dominance of the world middleweight division when he returns from a 14-month absence to face Miguel Cotto at Madison Square Garden in New York on June 7.

Andy Lee says he will finally get ‘back to the big time’ when he takes on John Jackson in a WBC world title eliminator at New York’s iconic Madison Square Garden on June 7.

Floyd Mayweather has confirmed he will put his unbeaten record on the line in a light-middleweight unification world title fight against Saul ’Canelo’ Alvarez later this year.

Boxer Floyd Mayweather was released from a Las Vegas jail early today after serving two months of a 90-day sentence for domestic violence.

Amir Khan believes he is ready to move onwards and upwards providing he beats Danny Garcia in tonight’s light-welterweight unification fight.

No longer golf’s world No 1, Tiger Woods has also been deposed as sport’s highest earner after an 11-year reign.

Floyd Mayweather Jr added the WBA Super World light-middleweight title to his supreme career roster with a battling unanimous points victory over Miguel Cotto in Las Vegas.

Katie Taylor will make her first appearance in Cork tomorrow night in her penultimate bout in Ireland before she jets off for the 2012 World Championships in Qinhuangdao, China, where she’ll be hoping to qualify for the 2012 London Olympics.

Floyd Mayweather will step back up in weight to challenge Miguel Cotto for his WBA light-middleweight title on May 5 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, his promoters have confirmed.

Amir Khan defends his light-welterweight world titles against Lamont Peterson in Washington tonight, with one eye already on Floyd Mayweather’s pound-for-pound crown.

Amir Khan denied he had dispatched Zab Judah with a low blow to become unified light-welterweight champion.

Amir Khan believes he will face the sternest test of his career when he goes head to head with Zab Judah in Las Vegas on Saturday night.

As expected, Amir Khan’s next defence of WBA light-welterweight title will be a unification bout with Zab Judah on July 23.

MIGUEL COTTO claimed he had answered his critics after stopping Yuri Foreman in the ninth round of their fight at Yankee Stadium to claim the WBA light-middleweight title.

FIGHT fans eager for boxing’s return to Yankee Stadium will have to wait a little longer tonight as Israeli world champion Yuri Foreman puts the Sabbath top of his priority list.

IRISH light-middleweight boxer James Moore is confident he can take full advantage of a second shot at the big time when he faces Pawel Wolak at Yankee Stadium tomorrow night.

THIRTY FOUR years after boxing’s last headline act at Yankee Stadium saw Muhammad Ali handed a controversial points victory over Ken Norton, the sport is preparing to return to the venue tomorrow night.

Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones last night welcomed the opportunity to host world championship boxing at the new Cowboys Stadium after Manny Pacquiao and Joshua Clottey’s welterweight clash was confirmed for March 13 in Texas.

TRAINER Freddie Roach has put Floyd Mayweather Jr firmly in his sights as the next opponent for his victorious charge Manny Pacquiao.

Manny Pacquiao was delighted to have claimed another bigger opponent as a victim following his impressive 12th-round stoppage of welterweight title-holder Miguel Cotto in Las Vegas.

MIGUEL COTTO will step into the ring tonight determined not to become another footnote in Manny Pacquiao’s rise to boxing superstardom.

Manny Pacquiao will fight three-time world champion Miguel Cotto in Las Vegas on November 14, their promoter announced today.

FORGET the history-making heavies, the marvellous middles and the lightning lights – boxing’s traditional weight divisions are facing meltdown at the hands of a new phenomenon designed to meet the credit crunch head-on.

RICKY HATTON signalled his return to form with a classy 11th-round stoppage of Paulie Malignaggi and promised he can continue to improve in future fights.

RICKY HATTON yesterday laughed off a series of vicious jibes from forthcoming opponent Paulie Malignaggi and launched a vigorous defence of his record in the ring.

MIGUEL COTTO will seek to make his case as boxing’s new top fighter when he takes on Mexican Antonio Margarito at the MGM Grand Garden Arena tonight.

OSCAR DE LA HOYA is convinced he has found the right style to defeat Floyd Mayweather Jr in their rematch this September.

SOMEONE’S ‘0’ had to go when the undefeated Floyd Mayweather and Ricky Hatton went toe-to-toe but both victor and vanquished now face tough decisions about their futures, career choices that will have a knock-on effect for some of boxing’s biggest names.

Ricky Hatton ended the fight of his life flat on his back in Las Vegas on Saturday night but the gutsy manner of his 10th-round knockout defeat to the incomparable Floyd Mayweather had the ’Hit Man’ insisting: “I’ll be back”.

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.

ONLY a big fight night in the Big Apple can start with Don King in a Santa Claus outfit and end with a promoter and his boxer both staking claims to fight the same man.

WBA Welterweight champion Miguel Cotto retained his title and his unbeaten record at Madison Square Garden as he held off a spirited challenge from four-time former world champion Sugar Shane Mosley on Saturday night.

IRISH Ropes are lining up two more stern tests for John Duddy after the Derryman came through the successful defence of his WBC Continental Americas title in New York at the weekend.

KRONK boxing legend Emanuel Steward has pledged to fast-track Andy Lee towards a world middleweight title shot following an impressive professional debut at the weekend.

RICKY HATTON’S dream of emulating his sport’s trans-Atlantic greats moved closer to reality after heovercame another cuts nightmare to unify the world light-welterweight titles with a ninth-round knockout of Carlos Maussa in Sheffield.

Ricky Hatton has warned his world light-welterweight title unification showdown with Carlos Maussa in Sheffield tonight will not be a fight for the faint-hearted.

Ricky Hatton’s status as the world’s finest light welterweight may be in little doubt but the ambitious Manchester ’Hitman’ insists he will not be satisfied until he has conquered America.

Ricky Hatton’s trainer Billy Graham has dismissed the prospect of a rematch against Kostya Tszyu.