By William Mackay: Once again, middleweight prospect Andy Lee (18-1, 13 KOs) failed to look impressive, this time in defeating Latvian Olegs Fedotovs (10-6, 6 KOs) by a six round unanimous decision Saturday night on the undercard of the IBF/WBO heavyweight title match between Wladimir Klitschko and challenger Ruslan Chagaev at the Veltins Arena, in Gelsenkirchen, Germany.
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Boxing News – Witter vs. Alexander Pushed Back to August; Lee vs. Fedotovs on June 20th
By Jason Kim: Former World Boxing Council light welterweight champion Junior Witter (37-2-2, 22 KOs) will have to wait a little longer before he gets a shot at recapturing his WBC title because his opponent Devon Alexander won’t be ready to go by the originally scheduled date of July 11th for the bout. Instead, the fight is likely to be pushed back to August 1st.
Boxing – Is Andy Lee Still Relevant In the Middleweight Division?
By Sean McDaniel: It’s disappointing how far middleweight Andy Lee’s star has faded since his 7th round stoppage loss to Brian Vera last year. In that fight, Lee had Vera hurt early in the fight but was unable to finish him off. Vera then stuck around and began to batter the tall, slender 6’2” Lee with big right hands in the 6th and 7th, wobbling Lee and puffing up his face.
Is Andy Lee Championship Material?
By Sean McDaniel: After watching middleweight Andy Lee (17-1, 13 KOs)n struggle last Saturday night in winning a 10-round decision over German Alexander Sipos (19-6-2, 9 KOs) at The O2 Arena, in Dublin, Ireland, I’m now seriously questioning whether Lee, 24, has what it takes to become a world champion at middleweight. Lee, who’s trained by legendary trainer Emanuel Steward, was s hurt twice in the fight against the journeyman Sipos, and faded badly in the last two rounds of the 10-round bout.
Lee Defeats Sipos
By Sean McDaniel: Middleweight prospect Andy Lee (17-1, 13 KOs) defeated Alex Sipos (19-6-2, 9 KOs) by a 10-round decision on Saturday night at the O2 Arena, in Dublin, Ireland, on Saturday night. The final judges’ scores were 99-91. Lee, 24, had troubles with the German Sipos, 34, in the first half of the fight, getting tagged repeatedly by Sipos’ power shots in the first five rounds.
Matthews-Ramogoadi, Fury-Swaby, Elcock-Macklin, Lee – News
Andy Lee’s disappointment over a scheduled Madison Square Garden date falling through has proven to be short lived after he secured a place on the Hunky Dorys World Title Fight Night at The O2, Dublin on Saturday, March 21st.
Lee vs. Echols, Byrne, McCullough – News
The latest boxing sensation in a long, growing line of Irish boxers who’ve emigrated to the United States is unbeaten light welterweight Dean “Irish Lightning” Byrne, who makes his New York City debut fighting on the St. Patrick’s Day Eve (Monday, March 16) “Erin Go Brawl II” card, presented by Irish Ropes Promotions, at WaMu Theater in the famed Madison Square Garden.
Lee Stops Gibbs, Fails To Impress
By Nate Anderson: Making his first appearance after a crushing defeat to Brian Vera four months earlier, middleweight Andy Lee (16-1, 13 KOs) took out Willie Gibbs (20-4, 16 KOs) in the 10th round at the University Arena, in Limerick, Ireland. Lee looked a lot improved since his last fight, keeping both his hands up most of the time to protect his chin, moving more often and mixing it up much less often than in his last fight with Vera. In the 10th round, with Gibbs attacking him fiercely and landing big right hands, Lee suddenly dropped Gibbs with a right-left combination to the head.
Gibbs got up, staggering visibly, and attempted to fight on. Almost immediately, Gibbs retreated along the ropes, or rather he slid along the ropes as if they were greased with oil. In reality, his legs were completely gone and he could barely stand up. Lee calmly went after him and drilled him with four consecutive straight left hands to the head, further staggering Gibbs, and causing his corner to throw in the towel, which landed around Gibbs’ head, obscuring his vision briefly while being attacked by Lee.
Andy Lee Stops Willie Gibbs
By Sean McDaniel: Middleweight prospect Andy Lee (16-1, 13 KOs) looked impressive on Saturday night in the process of stopping American Willie Gibbs (20-4, 16 KOs) in the 10th round at the University Arena, in Limerick, Ireland. Lee, 24, fought much more cautiously than he had in his past fights, that is, until the 10th round, when he found himself under a heavy attack by Gibbs, who was disparately behind in the fight and trying to score a knockout.
Lee, however, seemed pleased to finally lift the restraints on his own offense and went after Gibbs with some big shots, dropping him with a perfect right hand to the head. Badly hurt, Gibbs dragged himself off the canvas and attempted to fight on. Lee, however, smelling blood now, teed-off on a shaken Gibbs with a flurry of shots, which led to Gibbs’ corner to throw in the towel to signal surrender. The fight was officially stopped by referee Emile Tiedt at 2:46 of the 10th round.
Lee vs. Gibbs On Saturday Night
By Dan Ambrose: Middleweight prospect Andy Lee (15-1, 12 KOs) hopes to get back on the winning tract tomorrow night against Willie Gibbs (20-3, 16 KOs) in a 10-round bout at the University Arena, in Limerick, Ireland. After being dubbed as the best prospect in the world bar none by his trainer Emanuel Stewart, Lee went out and got taken apart by Brian Vera in a t-round TKO loss at the Mohegan Sun Casino, in Uncasville, Connecticut, in March. Although Lee came close to scoring a 1st round knockout himself, Vera escaped the round, and in the following rounds he would make it a grueling bout for Lee, hurting him often with right hands, and busting up his face something awful.
By the 7th round, Lee looked as bad as Stewart pupil Wladimir Klitschko did when he suddenly wore himself out against Lamon Brewster in Klitschko’s 5th round TKO loss in April 2004. Lee would later point out that he made a major mistake by trying to slug it out with the bigger, stronger Vera, whom he probably could have easily beaten if he had focused on boxing him rather than trying to stand in front of him and trade shot for shot.