Sweet as sugar

IN the US they are dubbing him “the new Sugar Ray”. The former multi-world champion promotes Bernard Dunne and sees the similarities.

Sugar Ray Leonard isn't one for false promises but the twinkle is back in his eye as the Dubliner scorches through a posse of opponents.

Eight fights into an unbeaten professional career and the TV networks are sniffing too, but Dunne, sign-posted for greatness five years ago as an Irish Examiner National Junior Sports Star, is taking it all in his stride, living out the dream he harboured since his father, Brendan, a 1976 Olympic boxer, took him along to the CIE club as a five-year-old.