AMIR KHAN is relishing his return to “the Mecca of boxing” when he takes on wily American veteran Zab Judah in Las Vegas on Saturday night.

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.

PROMOTER Barry Hearn described the referee’s decision to stop Saturday night’s world title fight between Amir Khan and Dungiven southpaw, Paul McCloskey, as the “most staggering decision” he had ever seen in any ring in the world.

Amir Khan rejected Barry Hearn's angry calls for a rematch against Irish boxer Paul McCloskey after the world title challenger complained bitterly about tonight's controversial cuts stoppage.

Amir Khan struggled to live up to his own billing as a pay-per-view superstar as he claimed a six-round points win over unfortunate cut victim, Irishman Paul McCloskey tonight.

Amir Khan will defend his WBA light-welterweight title against European champion Paul McCloskey on April 16.

ANDY LEE and John Duddy could touch gloves sooner rather than later if the Derryman rises to the challenge thrown out by the Limerick southpaw yesterday.

LUIS “El Leon” Garcia could be contemplating Olympic gold medals if he remained in his native Cuba but, instead, he faces the biggest assignment of his short professional career at The Aura in Letterkenny tonight when he takes on Uruguay’s Jorge Rodriguez on the undercard to Paul McCloskey’s European title defence.

WITH two European titles, one Irish title and several reputations on the line, tonight’s mammoth nine-bout televised Hunky Dorys Fight Night at the National Stadium is overflowing with promise.

HIGHLY rated light welterweight Paul McCloskey insists he has the ‘tools to do a job’ on Scotland’s Barry Morrison when they clash in Letterkenny next month.

ANDY MURRAY will be hoping for a quick hat-trick when he touches gloves with Hungary’s Laszlo Robert Balogh on the Yanjing Beer Fight Night at Neptune Stadium in Cork on Saturday night as part of “The Undefeated’s”.

THE three unbeaten Cubans – all former world junior champions – who have based themselves in Cork will parade their talents before the ‘home’ crowd once again on the Yanjing Beer Fight Night, scheduled for Neptune Stadium on June 26.

Former World Champion Barry McGuigan is tipping his Super Bantamweight protégé Carl Frampton to follow in his footsteps by reaching the very top in the sport.

GARY ‘Spike’ O’Sullivan will take his professional boxing career to a new level when he challenges Ciarán Healy from Belfast for the vacant Irish middleweight title at Neptune Stadium in Cork on November 28.

THIS may not be the best time for Bernard Dunne to challenge for Ricardo Cordoba’s WBA world super bantamweight title according to the champion’s promoter, Richard Dobal.

CORK welterweight Billy Walsh, accused in the past of ducking Stephen Haughian, insists this has never been the case and is ready to prove it by taking on the Lurgan man in his own back yard.

Paul McCloskey is the new British light-welterweight champion after beating Colin Lynes in Essex, England last night.

ANDY LEE is aiming to produce a knockout performance against Willie Gibbs at the UL Arena tonight which will put the Limerick man back into contention for a world title shot.

FOLLOWING a surprise defeat in his last outing, boxer Andy Lee has chosen a tough comeback assignment, with the announcement at King John’s Castle in Limerick yesterday that his next opponent will be Philadelphian Willie Gibbs (20-3), at the UL Arena on Saturday July 19.

PAUL McCLOSKEY finally gets the perfect opportunity to advance his career into the realm of world class boxing when he meets former WBC world lightweight champion, Cesar Bazan, at the Letterkenny Leisure Complex tonight.

CORK boxing legend Seanie Barrett returns to action tomorrow night at the Riverside Park Hotel in Macroom (8pm).

Former European champion Bernard Dunne will head 'into the west' for his return to the ring on the Hunky Dorys Fight Night at the International Events Arena, Breaffy House Resort in Castlebar, County Mayo on April 12.

THE damage John Duddy sustained to his left eye looks certain to rule out the June 7 world title fight with Kelly Pavlik and, while Bob Arum is already looking around for a replacement, Andy Lee insisted yesterday that he won’t be rushing his world title ambitions.

THE punching power of Mike “The Rebel” Perez was manifested in just 41 seconds of brilliance at the UL Arena on Saturday as he disposed of the Hungarian heavyweight, Sandor Baloghs, with just two punches.

ANDY LEE’S fight with Argentinean Alejandro Gustavo Falliga at the University of Limerick Arena tonight will be a rehearsal for a world title fight with Kelly Pavlik, according to trainer, Emanuel Steward.

PAUL McCLOSKEY has big plans for 2008 but they will all amount to nothing if he can’t get past Mexican dangerman Manuel Garnica at the Ladbrokes.com Fight Night at the University Sports Arena, Limerick on February 2 which will be headlined by Andy Lee.

WEEK’S of speculation ended yesterday when Alejandro Gustavo Falliga was handed the daunting task of squaring up to Andy Lee in the big homecoming fight at the University Sports Arena in Limerick on February 2.

Andy Lee's opponent for his homecoming fight in Limerick on February 2 has been confirmed - the unbeaten middleweight will be taking on Argentina's Alejandro Gustavo Falliga.

HIS career has been sensational — his return to Ireland dramatic — and now Andy Lee has promised his Limerick homecoming on February 2, when he headlines the city’s first professional boxing show at UL Arena, will be spectacular.

John Duddy will bid to take a further step towards a world title fight in 2008 when he meets American Matt Vanda on February 2.

AFTER the fiasco of the aborted McCullough-Martinez fight a week earlier there were no problems at the scales in Belfast yesterday when John Duddy and Howard Eastman weighed in for tonight’s sell-out middleweight contest at The King’s Hall (RTÉ2, 9pm).

FORMER European, Commonwealth and British middleweight champion Howard Eastman bids to turn John Duddy’s King’s Hall dream into a nightmare when they clash at the legendary Belfast venue on December 8.

PAUL McCLOSKEY will share the limelight with fellow Derryman, John Duddy, at the Hunky Dorys Fight Night in the National Stadium on October 20 and is confident that there will be a double celebration.

John Duddy has been hit with a late change of opponent for his headline bout on the next Hunky Dorys Fight Night at the National Stadium on October 20.

Belfast man Brian Magee admitted "I was certain that I had won it", after his British light-heavyweight title clash with Tony Oakey ended in a majority draw at the Point Depot last night.

JASON McKAY will have bigger scalps on his mind when he faces seasoned Romanian Mugurel Sebe in the “Battle on Leeside” at Cork City Hall on Saturday night.

Derry middleweight John Duddy scored a tenth-round stoppage of Italian Alessio Furlan overnight to triumph in his first professional fight on Irish soil.

HE HAS taken the US by storm.

SHORT route wins for the Walsh brothers, a successful re-launch for Neil Sinclair and first visits to the canvas for Paul McCloskey and Stephen Haughian resulted in thrill-a-minute entertainment for boxing fans at Cork City Hall on Saturday night.

PASCHAL COLLINS, who trains Billy Walsh, insists the Corkman would already be a world champion if he had met him 10 years ago.

BILLY WALSH will arrive at today’s weigh-in (4pm) at the Clarion Hotel with a clean bill of health for tomorrow night’s clash with Moroslov Kubik from the Czech Republic at Cork City Hall.

NEIL SINCLAIR hopes to relaunch his professional boxing career by beating Arek Malek from Poland at Cork City Hall tomorrow night.