Lee can profit from the Klitschko connection

IRISH boxer Andy Lee will have some heavyweight support when he looks for the second win of his professional career in Mannheim, Germany, tomorrow night.

The former Olympian from Limerick has been sparring with 6ft 5ins, 17st 6ins star Wladimir Klitschko in the build-up to his six-round middleweight bout against unbeaten German Burhan Aykut, a fight which will be shown to a national, non-pay-per-view audience in the USA on HBO.

The 21-year-old, now fighting out of Detroit with trainer Emmanuel Steward, has decamped to Europe with Klitschko and the rest of the Kronk stable ahead of the Ukrainain’s IBF world title challenge against champion Chris Byrd of the USA.