Eye injury takes gloss off Lee’s sixth victory

ANDY LEE will push back his next fight to late December following the sixth victory of his professional career at Madison Square Garden.

The Detroit-based Limerick middleweight, a protégé of Kronk Gym trainer Emanuel Steward, scored a unanimous points win after six rounds against experienced New Jersey fighter Dennis Sharpe on Saturday night to move to 6-0 since his March debut.

Fighting on the Wladimir Klitschko-Calvin Brock heavyweight title card, a cut to Lee’s right eyelid sustained in a fifth-round clash of heads, however, required six stitches and the 22-year-old has cancelled plans for a mid-December fight in Chicago on an HBO card. It also places in doubt his participation in world middleweight champion Jermain Taylor’s current training camp.