It’ll end in a knockout, insist Lee and Gibbs

BOTH Andy Lee and Willie ‘The Gladiator’ Gibbs promised to end Saturday night’s Ladbrokes.com showdown at the UL Arena by knockout when they squared up before hundreds of fight fans at a public training session in Limerick yesterday.

A special ring was erected in the Parkway Shopping Centre and RTÉ’s Marty Morrissey was there to get the fans worked up. If Gibbs was expecting a hostile reception in Andy Lee’s home town then he would have been disappointed as he shared the limelight with Limerick’s favourite son, posing for photographs and signing autographs.

But he knew only too well that, come the first bill on Saturday night the atmosphere will change dramatically.