Lee shows off the finer points

ANDY LEE got his Olympic boxing campaign off to the perfect start on Saturday evening with a decisive 38-23 victory over a powerfully-built Mexican, Alfredo Angulo Lopez, that was convincing in every way.

The 20-year-old Limerick man boxed with a maturity beyond his years, punching with deadly accuracy, putting two and three punch combinations together with a consummate ease and boxing with a flamboyance that had those around long enough to remember Montreal in 1976, comparing him with the legendary Sugar Ray Leonard.

Every now and again a boxer comes along who can take the sport to the level of showmanship and Lee is one of those; if you want excitement, he can provide that, but if you want to explore the technical side of his art he can do that too.