General consensus has it that Scotland’s first world boxing champion was Benny Lynch. Boxing historian and writer, Brian Donald, even says as much in his 1988 book, The Fight Game In Scotland, but now he is championing the cause of Edinburgh’s Johnny Hill with plans for an exhibition in the city’s Royal Museum and a […]
Boxing booth legend, Arthur “Tiny” Clephane, died at Queen Margaret Hospital, Dunfermline on the 17th of June. He was 90 years old.
Tiny Clephane, who stood 6′4″ tall, fought over 350 bouts in a career that spanned from 1927 to 1952 and extended to boxing booths and venues all over Britain. He took up boxing at […]
Alex Arthur’s European Super-Featherweight title challennge has been rescheduled for Saturday the 23rd of July at Edinburgh’s Meadowbank Stadium.
Arthur was due to face the champion Boris Sinitsin on Saturday the 9th of July, but show promoters Sports Network felt that due to the G8 Summit taking place in Perthshire and the expected knock-on […]
Take nothing away from Kevin O’Hara. Few boxers today are willing to risk a step up in class early in their careers these days, but with less than a dozen professional fights to his name he came to Glasgow on Friday to face Willie Limond.
Unfortunately for O’Hara however, he was facing a Willie Limond […]
It’s not only orthodox fighters who have problems with southpaws. Southpaws themselves can struggle too. And so it was for Jamie Coyle when he lost on points over six rounds to Michael Lomax in Dagenham last night.
Coyle, fighting at Light Middleweight for the first time, chose to stand square on for much of the contest […]
Kevin Anderson will receive 60% of the purse for his Welterweight Celtic Championship defence against Bradley Pryce the British Boxing Board Of Control announced yesterday.
As champion, the 22 year old from Buckhaven is entitled to the lion’s share of the purse, but there was the possibility that it would have to be shared if the […]
Glasgow’s Willie Limond used to play football for Albion Rovers so he knows all about plying his trade away from the spotlight in a country dominated by the giants of Scottish football that are Rangers and Celtic.
And so it is with boxing. Despite just one defeat in 26 professional fights, Willie will be headlining […]
Stirling’s Jamie Coyle puts his unbeaten record on the line tonight at Dagenham tonight in a genuine 50-50 fight against another unbeaten prospect, Chingford’s Michael Lomax.
The two meet on the Nicky Cook versus Dazzo Williams undercard at the Goresbrook Leisure Centre in Dagenham, Essex - a fight that was originally due to take place […]
Scotland’s Scott Harrison could be heading for Las Vegas later this year to face fellow world champion Juan Manuel Marquez according to Showtime’s Jay Larkin.
Marquez is generally regarded as the best Featherweight in the world at the moment, having lost just twice in a 44 fight career. His most recent win came in May against […]
Alex Arthur will face Boris Sinitsin for the European Super Featherweight title at the Meadowbank Stadium in Edinburgh on the 9th of July.
The British and Commonwealth Super Featherweight champion Alex Arthur sees it as a step towards a world title shot, although he’s not taking the highly experienced Russian champion who beat Craig Docherty last […]
Kevin Anderson’s ten round points victory over Vladimir Borovski at the Ice Arena, Kirkcaldy, on Saturday night was the perfect warm up for his forthcoming British Welterweight title eliminator against Bradley Pryce.
Anderson, who has a habit of finishing fights early, had to go ten rounds for the first time and was forced to work hard […]
Greenock’s John Simpson prepared for a second title fight with a convincing win over Polish boxer Dariusz Snarski at the St Andrew’s Sporting Club on Monday night.
Simpson stung Snarski in the first round with a sweet right hook giving the former IBF Intercontinental Super Featherweight title holder a taste of the canvas early on. He […]
Local boxer Robert Muncie won gold at the Four Nations tournament in Aberdeen at the weekend. The Granite City youngster beat Ireland’s Jason Cockburn 10-6 on points in the 1988 51kg category after outpointing England’s Adam Whitfield in the semis.
Another Granite City boxer, Matthew McAllister, also made it through to the finals in the 1988 […]
Barrie Lee failed to make it a Scottish double at the M.E.N Arena last night when he was stopped in the seventh round of his ten round WBU International Light Middleweight title fight against Thomas McDonagh.
The previously unbeaten Arbroath boxer made a fast, aggressive start against the far more experienced McDonagh. For the first three […]
Scott Harrison was in devastating form at the MEN Arena in Manchester last night, stopping Michael Brodie in just four rounds.
A fired up Harrison went to work as soon as the first bell went, looking every inch the man who wasn’t going to be relying on the three English judges at ringside to determine the […]
Fight Skool comes to the Kelvin Hall, Glasgow, on Friday the 17th of June with Willie Limond’s Celtic Championship Featherweight title fight against Northern Ireland’s Kevin O’Hara topping the bill.
Limond was due to face Frédéric Bonifai to defend his European Union title, but no purse bids were received for a fight that would have been […]
Both Scott Harrison and challenger Michael Brodie weighed in exactly on the nine stone weight limit (126lbs) ahead of their WBO Featherweight title fight at the MEN Arena, Manchester, tonight.
Arbroath’s Barrie Lee scaled ten stone 12 pounds 12 ounces ahead of his WBU International Light-Middleweight title fight against Thomas McDonagh who was 12 ounces lighter.
Tickets […]
Boxing’s credibility is called into question on a regular basis these days. And no wonder when the supposed neutrality of both judges and the referee can be called into question so easily for a world title fight.
When Scott Harrison defends his title against England’s Michael Brodie in Manchester on Friday night, Micky Vann of Leeds […]