‘Something tells me the stars are aligning and this is my time’

Dressed in a black tracksuit with matching baseball cap, Andy Lee looks out from the vast balcony in his penthouse suite at the Las Vegas Cosmopolitan.

Down below, the famous Bellagio fountains swirl into life and the warm December sun glints back off the huge replica Eiffel Tower in front of the ‘Paris’ hotel.

Some 45 floors beneath his feet is the arena where Lee will face Matt Korobov for the vacant WBO middleweight title tonight.