Long wait over for confident Lee

THEY sparred at the Vladimir Klitschko training camp in Austria last year when Andy Lee was preparing for his homecoming fight in Limerick but Alex Sipos will wish he had never set eyes on the Limerick man when they touch gloves in anger at The O2 in Dublin on Saturday night.

“It’s been a long wait — last July was my last fight,” Lee said after a workout in the familiar surroundings of the High Performance Unit beside the National Stadium yesterday.

Lee, a former world junior silver medallist and Athens Olympian, spent many a long day working under Billy Walsh and Zaur Antia at South Circular Road so it was hardly surprising that he would feel relaxed there.