JOHN JOE NEVIN and Katie Taylor completed a fantastic season by claiming the top awards at the IABA Annual Awards ceremony at the Louis Fitzgerald Hotel in Dublin last night.

Newly-crowned WBA super bantamweight champ Bernard Dunne admits that he was inspired by the Irish rugby team en route to his win over defending champ Ricardo Cordoba at The O2 Arena in Dublin on Saturday night.

BERNARD DUNNE can fulfil every boxer’s dream by becoming world champion tonight but he will have to produce the performance of his life if he is to strip the WBA world super bantamweight title from Ricardo “El Maestrito” Cordoba before a sell-out crowd at The 02 in Dublin.