Collins: I’m still ready to rumble with Roy Jones

Steve Collins has strenuously denied suggestions that his fight with Roy Jones Jnr won’t be going ahead this summer, instead saying the bout is on track and he is “so up for it, you wouldn’t believe, I’m just waiting on the date now”.

His brother Roddy yesterday told the Irish Examiner the exact opposite, saying, “No, no, that’s never going to happen, that’s off”. However the former world super-middleweight champion stated: “Roddy wasn’t up to date on it all and wasn’t in a position to say whether or not it was going ahead. And it is going ahead.”

Steve also rubbished suggestions his age was any sort of a medical issue, given the testing he has undergone.