A confident Andy Lee insisted yesterday he will be patient during tonight’s return to the ring in New York against Detroit’s Darryl Cunningham.

The art of boxing is a study of a lifetime, one which you can practise everyday but never fully master.

Lennox Lewis yesterday spoke of being “completely devastated” by the death of revered trainer Emanuel Steward.

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

While literary aficionados will be celebrating Bloomsday around the world today, middleweight Andy Lee (28-1, 20 KOs) will try to add his own chapter in the tome of Irish boxing history when he challenges Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (45-0-1, 31 KOs) for his WBC title in El Paso, Texas (4am, Sunday morning, Irish time).

ANDY LEE faces a familiar foe at The 02 this night week when he takes on former European title challenger Alex Sipos on the Hunky Dorys World Title Fight Night.

JAMES MOORE will get his biggest chance yet to show there is a third US-based Irish boxer with world-title credentials when he tops the bill at Madison Square Garden on March 15.

FRESH from her victory over German champion Yana Kultysheva at the weekend, Ireland’s world boxing champion, Katie Taylor, returns to the ring in Dungarvan on Friday night for the first all-women’s tournament at the Sports Centre.

ANDY LEE returns to Detroit tomorrow to prepare for his first eight round fight which is scheduled for Las Vegas on January 25 against an opponent yet to be named.

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

IRISH middleweight Andy Lee is developing a taste for going home early after taking just over a minute to drop Rodney Freeman and record the third victory of his professional career in Memphis, on Friday night.

ANDY LEE goes into his third professional fight in Memphis tonight confident he can live with the best in the middleweight division.

IT HAS been a long time coming, but Irish Olympic boxer Andy Lee will try and savour every second of his professional debut in Detroit tonight.

ANDY LEE is relishing his professional debut as the headline act at the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit on February 17.

IRISH middleweight Andy Lee is gearing himself up for his professional debut in the USA in the New Year.

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HIGH Performance Director, Gary Keegan, knows the next call he gets from Andy Lee will be to tell him he has signed professional forms.

ANDY LEE is expected to make a decision on his boxing future in the next 48 hours.

Limerick boxer Andy Lee has ended months of speculation by signing professional forms with world-renowned trainer Emanuel Steward.