Lee eyes better targets

The look on Andy Lee’s face when the referee called a halt to his bout with Ferenc Hafner, after just 1 minute and 19 seconds of round two, said it all about the man’s current level of ambition.

The 29-year-old, oozing confidence from his southpaw stance, had just floored his Hungarian opponent for a third time in less than four minutes, this time with a right hook, but looked aghast when the official said enough was enough. This is a man who has a point to prove — and he wants to do it quickly.

Still rebuilding after his defeat to Julio Cesar Chavez Jnr in their WBC middle-weight world title fight nearly 18 months ago, Lee is part of an exciting crop of British and Irish middleweights and knows that now is the time to show he is pick of the bunch.