By Sanjeev Shetty BBC Sport Online, Las Vegas

The fight will be re-run in full on Sunday Grandstand
(BBC2, Sun 15 Sept, 1715 BST)

Considering how bombastic fight people can be, very few of the big names are willing to stake any money on who they think will win Saturday's superfight between Oscar de la Hoya and Fernando Vargas.

Former world featherweight champion Erik Morales believes it will be a good fight but refuses to make a prediction, claiming it is too close to call.

World lightweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jnr, whose father trains De la Hoya, believes either man is capable of winning.

Bob Arum, promoter of the fight, favours De la Hoya but says the fight could go either way.

While it was reported last week that world heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis had drawn up a three-fight deal to continue his career, BBC Sport Online can reveal that some of the details originally stated are erroneous.

"When he informs us who he wants to fight and when he wants to fight, we will finalise it," said Mark Taffet, the senior vice-president of HBO Sports, who exclusively televise Lewis' fights on pay-per-view and cable television.

"HBO has a long-term agreement with Lennox Lewis to televise his fights for as long as he chooses to fight."

Taffet confirmed to BBC Sport Online that talks had taken place between Lewis' camp and the representatives of Wladimir and Vitali Klitschko, but nothing further has arisen.

"We're hopeful that he wants to carry on - Lennox has been a wonderful attraction and a fantastic asset for HBO and we still believe he has some great performances in him."

The British light middleweight scene features a handful of potential world champions, but according to promoter Bob Arum, there is little chance of any of them fighting a De la Hoya or Vargas.

"I think that the American promoters do not want to have much to do with the English boxing scene because it appears to us to be so xenophobic," Arum told BBC Sport Online.

Arum claims that despite frequent conversations with English promoters Frank Warren and Barry Hearn, the relative lack of exposure given to his fighters on English television presents a problem in matching fighters from either side of the Atlantic.