Mike Tyson has dismissed Floyd ‘Pretty Boy’ Mayweather’s claims that he is greater than Muhammad Ali or Sugar Ray Robinson and instead labelled him a delusional “small, scared man”.

Floyd Mayweather will view his success in providing financial security for his family as a greater achievement than retiring undefeated.

The Welsh might have endured more damaging weekends for their national sport but nobody at Twickenham, or anywhere else for that matter, could remember one.

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

Forgive us for being obvious about yesterday, and Limerick versus Tipperary, but any remarks about the game must be prefaced with one consideration.

The Mexican drug cartels operating with alarming bloodlust around the hinterlands of El Paso, Texas have promised there’ll be a one-day truce on Saturday, June 16.

THIS afternoon, in Louisville, Kentucky, the bell will ring for a week-long birthday party in Muhammad Ali’s honour.

WORLD amateur boxing chiefs AIBA have strongly indicated they will not make it compulsory for female boxers to wear skirts at the 2012 Olympics.

THERE’S this fat ten year old boy whose mother is forced to come to live in the tough black ghetto of Brownsville in Brooklyn in the Seventies.

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.

DARRAGH Ó SÉ played his 67th championship match for Kerry in last September’s All-Ireland final.

MICK LEAHY, who died in Coventry on Wednesday, had the distinction of beating the five weight world champion, Sugar Ray Robinson, during an illustrious boxing career. He was 74 years of age.

MANNY PACQUIAO will be looking to cement a legacy of his own this weekend when he attempts to conquer the light-welterweight division by beating Ricky Hatton.

WORLD boxing champion Bernard Dunne is to be honoured in Cork this week on the same day a legendary Leeside-born boxer is commemorated.

YANKEE STADIUM, which closed last Saturday night, opened for business on April 18, 1923 with a baseball game between the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox.

The son of the late singer Ray Charles has been arrested in Los Angeles for alleged drug possession and being under the influence of cocaine.

Ray Charles, a talent who erased musical boundaries between the sacred and the secular with hits such as “What’d I Say”, “Georgia on My Mind” and “I Can’t Stop Loving You,” died at age 73.

EAMONN TOUHEY (Moate ABC), a silver medallist at the European Cadet Championships last year, will be hotly fancied to add another title to his growing list at the National Stadium tonight.