Cool Dunne plans to box clever

BERNARD DUNNE and Poonsawat Kratingdaenggym met face to face for the first time in Dublin on Wednesday and now their respective handlers, Harry Hawkins and Niwat Laosuwannawat, have gone head-to-head in advance of tomorrow night’s world title defence at the O2 in Dublin.

Laosuwannawat is the man who managed the great Khaosai Galaxy to a remarkable seven-year reign as WBA world super-flyweight champion and while he insists that it might be impossible for anyone to emulate Galaxy, he feels that tonight’s challenger for Bernard Dunne’s WBA world super bantam weight belt may go close.

“My ambition is to emulate Khaosai,” Kratingdaenggym said. “He is the ultimate boxing hero in Thailand and I think that someday I could go on to be as great as him but, first things first, I need to beat Bernard Dunne.”