Dunne’s biggest pay day all down to Schwarzenegger

BERNARD DUNNE faces the biggest pay day of his professional boxing career to date when he takes on Oscar Villa over four rounds at the Marconi Automotive Museum in Tustin, Los Angeles, on Saturday night.

And the 23-year-old Dubliner will be appearing on the bill at the request of Arnold Schwarzenegger who, along with William Shatner, promotes the charity show which is a sellout at $5,000 a table.

"Arnie is friendly with Sugar Ray Leonard and he took a shine to Ben when he saw him box some time ago and asked if he could have him on the show," his manager Brian Peters said.