‘Big Bang’ ready to take dream prize shot

LIMERICK super-bantamweight, Willie “Big Bang” Casey has been handed the chance of a lifetime by Matchroom Sport by calling him up as replacement for Wayne McCullough, who has to withdraw from the Super Bantamweight Prizefighter event at York Hall, Bethnal Green, on May 29.

Former WBC world champion McCullough had been training hard to make his comeback in Barry Hearn’s latest eight-man, one-night tournament but the 39-year-old has been advised not to fight for two months.

“I am really devastated to be missing out on Prizefighter but the hand injury is pretty bad,” McCullough said. “My doctor has advised me not to use the hand at all for training or fighting for the next six to eight weeks.”