Lee comes up trumps as last-round punch floors ‘Braveheart’

ANDY LEE rescued the fight — if not his entire career — when he floored Scotland’s Craig McEwan with a ferocious left hand to the head less than a minute into the final round of their 10-round middleweight fight at the Foxwoods Casino in Mashantucket, Connecticut.

Topping the undercard on the night Sergio Gabriel Martinez claimed the vacant WBC Diamond middleweight with an eighth-round TKO of Serhiy Dzinziruk, Lee was trailing on points going into the fateful final round despite dropping Scotland’s ‘Braveheart’ with a combination in the ninth. Then, less than a minute into the 10th, he caught a tiring McEwan with a big right to the head and there was no comeback.

“It was a tough, tough fight, one of the hardest I have ever had,” Lee admitted. “And I would like to congratulate Craig on boxing so well. He’s a fine boxer and a very nice guy and I have no doubt that he will bounce back from this.