Ben there, done that

BERNARD DUNNE went back to work in Freddie Roach’s Wild Card Gym in Hollywood, Los Angeles on Monday morning, satisfied with what he described as the best boxing performance of his fledgling professional career.

The Irish featherweight prospect had been in northern California last Friday night, making another important progression on the road he and his management team hope will lead him to a world title shot by, they are planning, the end of 2005.

Dunne beat the experienced and durable Panamanian Evangelino Perez with an unanimous points decision at San Jose’s HP Pavilion in northern California’s Silicon Valley.