Cork-based Perez to feature at Lee’s homecoming

ISMAIKEL PEREZ, awaiting an opponent for his Cork debut on the undercard to the Billy Walsh-James Gorman Irish title fight at Neptune Stadium on Saturday night, has been pencilled in on the undercard to the Andy Lee-Alejandro Gustavo Falliga fight at the University of Limerick Arena a week later.

“The interest in Mike is huge,” his promoter, Gary Hyde, insisted yesterday. “He is certainly going to be busy but that’s the way he wants it.”

Aptly nicknamed “El Rebellio” back in Cuba he has been creating quite a stir since his arrival in Cork just over a week ago.