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.

PASCHAL COLLINS predicts a big future for Corkman Gary ‘Spike’ O’Sullivan ahead of his pro debut, the undercard to the Billy Walsh/James Gorman Irish welterweight title fight at Neptune Stadium tomorrow night.

BILLY WALSH admitted yesterday that he was irked by the suggestion from Belfast opponent James Gorman that he only had temporary custody of the All-Ireland welterweight championship belt.

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).

JASON McKAY believes his experience could be decisive against Andy Lee in their Irish super middleweight title fight at the National Stadium on Saturday week.

Unbeaten sensation Andy Lee will face the biggest test of his professional career to date when he battles with Jason McKay for the vacant Irish Super Middleweight title as part of the Ladrokes.com Fight Night at the National Stadium on Saturday, December 15.

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.

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

BERNARD DUNNE was reluctant to make any predictions other than to say that he is not going to lose this fight when he took time out to relax yesterday in advance of tomorrow night’s defence of his European Super-Bantamweight title against Yersin Jailauov at The Point.

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.

BERNARD DUNNE will defend his European super bantamweight title against Yerson Jailauov from Kazakhstan at the Point Depot on March 25 in the first of four planned fights this year.

BILLY WALSH won his first national boxing title in City Hall back in 1985 when the championships were staged in Cork as part of the “Cork 800” celebrations where Sugar Ray Leonard was among the celebrities watching him perform.

Tickets for Saturday night's European Title fight between Ireland’s Bernard Dunne and Esham Pickering at The Point is now sold out.

Following a gruelling training camp, unbeaten Dubliner Bernard Dunne believes he is in the shape of his life ahead of Saturday night’s acid test against former European champion Noel Wilders.

Former European and British bantamweight champion Noel Wilders has been chosen to oppose Dubliner Bernard Dunne at the National Stadium on Saturday, January 28.

Former IBO super-middleweight champion Brian Magee has been added to the bill of an exciting night of boxing at Dublin's National Stadium on January 28.

HAVING chalked up an 18th straight pro win in Germany last weekend, Bernard Dunne is hoping to make a step up in class by challenging England’s Michael Hunter for the European (EBU) super bantamweight title within the next six months.

BERNARD DUNNE had no problem at the scales in advance of tonight’s IBC world super bantamweight title fight at the National Stadium.

Former British and European champion Noel Wilders has been forced to pull out of Friday night's IBC Super Bantamweight title fight against undefeated Dubliner Bernard Dunne.