Boxing: Get a ringside seat with the Herald countdown

The Herald will be ringside for David Tua's challenge for the world heavyweight title next weekend.

When Tua steps into the ring at the Mandalay Bay casino for his showdown with champion Lennox Lewis, our boxing writer Peter Jessup and photographer Kenny Rodger will be there.

Jessup and Rodger, who have already spent a week with Tua and his entourage in the leadup to the fight, fly to Las Vegas today.

They will report extensively from Monday on New Zealand's biggest individual sports event of the year, with extensive pictorial coverage.

Next Friday's Herald will include a large full colour poster of the fight, which is shaping as the best heavyweight contest of recent times.

Can Tua go one better than Tom Heeney, our last heavyweight contender in 1928, who was billed the "Hard Rock from Down Under," and lasted 11 rounds against champion Gene Tunney at Yankee Stadium in New York?

Don't miss out on the Herald's day-by-day countdown to the Tuaman's big day out in Las Vegas.

Herald Online feature: Tua v Lewis