There were a few moments of serious worry in the National Stadium in Dublin last night as Ireland moved to a 7-2 victory over Scotland in the Annual Kuttner Shield match. In the light-heavyweight division, the Scottish representative, Lee Ramsay, was knocked out with a thundering right cross from Sean O Grady with only two seconds to go in the final round.

Ramsay, however, lay on the canvass for at least two minutes as he was attended by the fight doctor Martin Purcell and by the referee Gordon Hendry. The young Scotsman slowly regained consciousness and although there was talk of a stretcher and an ambulance, he recovered sufficiently to be brought to hospital by car. It was a spectacular, if rather unfortunate, debut for O'Grady who was boxing for Ireland in his first international. At the time that he delivered his spectacular right cross, judges at the ringside had believed that he was going to lose the bout.

The winning margin of seven bouts to two for Ireland was achieved in quite spectacular fashion with five of the contests ending in early victories for the Irish within the stipulated five two-minute rounds.

The Galway boxer Francis Barrett underlined his popularity with the Irish crowd by stopping Leroy Smith in the second round of their welterweight contest. After Smith took a standing count in the second round, the referee stepped in to stop the contest. Ireland had started on the right note when Terry Carlyle beat Craig Docherty; but Scotland were coming back strongly when Lee Sharp beat Mark Wickham in the light-welterweight division; although Paul McCloskey and Barrett drove Ireland into a 3-1 lead.

There were signs of a Scottish comeback in the second welterweight bout of the night when Alan Wolecki scored a convincing victory over Robert Murray to leave the score at three bouts to two, with four contests to go.

It was then that the Irish surged into the lead when Brian Magee stopped David Feeney in the second round of their middleweight bout, which was closely followed by O'Grady's victory over Ramsay. This was quickly followed up after the drama of Ramsay's defeat, when Stephen Reynolds, Ireland's super-heavyweight champion, stopped David McKenna in round three, and John Kinsella, beaten by Reynolds in the Irish super-middleweight final, stopped Kevin Gault from Scotland with a perfect right hook in the first round of their bout.

Don King has promised to stand by disgraced former world champion Mike Tyson through what the controversial matchmaker describes as "a frustrating period."Tyson, who was banned from boxing after biting a chunk out of Evander Holyfield's ear in their world title bout last June, confirmed earlier this week that he had severed ties with his long-time promoter King.But King responded today: "I know he is going through a frustrating period at the moment, but I will stand beside him and be there for him. I love Mike Tyson and he knows that. I have always been there for him and we'll work through this too."