From brickwork to glovework for Irish hopeful Monaghan

All in all, it hasn’t been a bad weekend for boxing Stateside.

World title bouts returned to Brooklyn for the first time in 81 years on Saturday night and attracted more than 10,000 fight fans to the new home of the remodelled Nets basketball team.

The Nets will themselves bring back a major professional team sport to New York’s most populous borough for the first time in a half-century when the Knicks cross over the East River on November 1.