Breen (L) is adamant that he has never seen McCloskey in better physical shape ahead of the fight tonight.

John Breen has said that he has never seen Paul McCloskey looking as good in training and he is confident of victory on Saturday.

McCloskey takes on former WBO light welterweight champion DeMarcus Corley at the King’s Hall tomorrow and Breen says he is as sharp as ever.

Trainer Breen said:

“I’ve never seen Paul looking better than this, honestly. In the gym this is the best I’ve ever seen him; I have no worries at all about tomorrow night.

“Unfortunately we couldn’t get the five or six weeks sparring that he would normally have, in fact we’ve only been able to manage three weeks.

“But I wouldn’t be worried, he has been in terrific form, absolutely brilliant and he can’t wait to get in there against Corley.”

The fight against the former WBO champion will be a tricky assignment for “Dudey” but he hopes that a win can propel him back into the spotlight.

Corley (R) could prove to be a tougher assignment than most people think.

Corley has fought against some great boxers, including the two major stars that go head to head later on Saturday night, Miguel Cotto and Floyd Mayweather Jr, but McCloskey will not fear “Chop Chop”.

The American has won one of his last seven fights and the consensus is that the 37 year old’s best days are probably behind him.

McCloskey will be all too aware not to under-estimate “Chop Chop” but he will also have no fears when he takes to the ring in search of getting his hat back into the world-title challenging ring.

Dudey has, as John Breen stated, trained as hard for this fight as he has ever done, and when the bell rings tomorrow night the 32 year old will want to make sure nothing is left to chance.

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