All rosy in the Garden for focused Macklin

IT WAS a low point for Matthew “Mack the Knife” Macklin.

He had just walked out of Madison Square Garden in 2006 without throwing a punch on what should have been the biggest night of his professional career.

After a weigh-in mix-up involving his opponent, Macklin’s then trainer Billy Graham, the same man who brought Ricky Hatton to a world title, advised his young fighter to walk away from the debacle, swearing to his ambitious Birmingham-born, Tipperary-bred charge that one day he’d make it back to boxing’s biggest stage as a headliner.