When the Ireland management invited Marvin Hagler to give their players a fighting talk, The Marvellous One voiced fears for their collective safety.

FLOYD Mayweather described the biggest fight of the generation as just another day at the office, and he was right.

Dressed in a black tracksuit with matching baseball cap, Andy Lee looks out from the vast balcony in his penthouse suite at the Las Vegas Cosmopolitan.

Winning a third award in its first year is just one of many achievements for Pundit Arena, whose sports website attracts 250,000 visitors monthly, raising its advertising potential, reports Trish Dromey.

Matthew Macklin faces a third world title bid in Connecticut tonight. John Riordan spoke to him in New York City this week.

Between full-time work and training up to five times a week, there is little downtime for Seán Óg Ó hAilpín. But when it does come along, it’s the simple things that matter most to the former Cork inter-county hurling and football star.

Just as he knew best about most things, it seems Shankly was right again.

The mother of Hector 'Macho' Camacho says the shot former world champion boxer will be taken off life support today, after three more of his sons arrive in Puerto Rico to be with him.

Former world boxing champion Hector "Macho" Camacho was critically ill in hospital today after being shot in his native Puerto Rico.

Former world boxing champion Hector “Macho” Camacho is in hospital after being shot in the face as he sat in a car near the capital of Puerto Rico.

Irish boxing star Gary ‘Spike’ O’Sullivan is still on target for a world title shot in 2013 — and next month he takes the latest step on that road.

Lennox Lewis has spoken of his devastation at the death of long-time trainer Emanuel Steward.

Carl Froch had to admit the better man won after being left "bitterly disappointed" by a lacklustre points defeat against Andre Ward.

THE fight game continues to crumble in the City of Brotherly Love.

David Haye is confident he will fight Vitali Klitschko later this year after he has "smashed" his brother Wladimir on Saturday.

WILLIE “Big Bang” Casey is about to face the best 122 lb puncher of all time.

Remarkable boxer ‘Irish’ Micky Ward says he wouldn’t change a thing about Mark Wahlberg’s portrayal of him in the biopic The Fighter. John Riordan met him in Massachusetts

MARK Wahlberg, it seems, was destined to take on the role of junior welterweight ‘Irish’ Micky Ward in his critically lauded new film, The Fighter.

But rough streets frequented by prostitutes and dealers provided a potent breeding ground for his underlying talents

Gael Garcia Bernal is set to play legendary boxer Roberto Duran in a new biopic.

THERE’S a tale, probably apocryphal, that has long done the rounds of the boxing fraternity which is intended to highlight the depth of rivalry between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier.

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

JOE CALZAGHE has branded boxing “a dying sport” and is glad he is close to ending his career rather than just starting out.

DARREN SUTHERLAND is not just going to be a world champion — he is going to be one of the great world champions — according to his trainer Brian Lawrence.

I’M NOT quite sure why Stoke felt the need to wheel out a rather bemused looking Sugar Ray Leonard prior to kick-off last Saturday.

BERTIE AHERN is to earn in excess of €60,000 a speech on the international lecture circuit, it emerged last night.

IRISH boxing embraced a new star at the weekend as the jet-lagged Cuban southpaw sensation, Ismaikel ‘Mike’ Perez was ringside for the national senior championship finals in Dublin just hours after he touched down at Cork Airport.

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.

RICKY HATTON will evoke the spirit of Roberto Duran in his quest to become the first man to defeat Floyd Mayweather and establish himself as the number one pound-for-pound boxer in the world.

Amir Khan was showered with superlatives by legendary five-time world champion Sugar Ray Leonard after making a successful American television debut at Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium.

JOE CALZAGHE has 35,000 incentives to turn in the most devastating performance of his career tomorrow night as he finally begins to reap the rewards his talent deserves.

Wales are determined to leave Scotland sprawling on the canvas in Saturday’s heavyweight RBS 6 Nations clash after receiving the ultimate pep talk – from boxing legend Sugar Ray Leonard.

EVERY time Ricky Hatton gazes up towards the bright Las Vegas sky he is reminded of the reason why he has earned the right to top the bill in the entertainment capital of the world.

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.

BERNARD DUNNE is under no illusion about the enormity of the task when he faces former champion, Esham Pickering, for the European Super Bantamweight title at The Point on November 11 where all the 7,000 available tickets are sold out.

BOXING legend, Sugar Ray Leonard, is to visit Ireland in October.

Alan Pardew has built a reputation for boxing clever during his first season as a top-flight manager – and tonight he will prime West Ham to deliver one of the great FA Cup knock-out blows.

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.

TOP BOXING promoter Brian Peters last night insisted there was nothing ‘suspicious’ in the controversial ending to Saturday’s Irish lightweight title fight between Michael Gomez and Peter McDonagh in Dublin.

FINE GAEL leader Enda Kenny has criticised the Government for failing to honour a commitment that the new Cork Airport Authority wouldn’t face a start-up debt of over €130 million.

Sylvester Stallone is writing a book about his dietary habits and fitness regime because he's sick of being asked how he looks so good at 58.

Mel Gibson, William Shatner and James Caan are among a host of stars who have had to sign confidentiality agreements after viewing tapings of Sylvester Stallone's new boxing reality show.