Andy Lee: ‘It was always my dream to step off a plane at Shannon Airport with the belt’

IT SEEMED wholly appropriate that Andy Lee landed the punch that clinched this world title, the very same belt won by Steve Collins 20 years ago, moments after he had been rocked himself.

Matt Korobov, the highly favoured, undefeated Russian was ahead on the scorecards and seemed to have hurt Lee with a left hook midway through the sixth round.