Scott Harrison’s WBO Featherweight title defence against Nedal Hussein at the Braehead Arena on the 5th of November is heading for a sell out, with only a few hundred tickets left.

Hussein is now in Glasgow, following a brief visit to Sheffield to see Naseem Hamed, and can’t wait for the big night a week […]

Lee McAllister will not have the opportunity to cancel out his only defeat to date with the news that Dean Hickman has pulled out of Saturday’s boxing at the Beach Ballroom in Aberdeen.

The show has been saved by 24 year old Jackson Williams from Norwich who has stepped in at the eleventh hour to face […]

Don’t get me wrong because I think Scott Harrison versus Nedal Hussein is going to be one of the best fights of 2005, but the undercard offers some potentially superb contests too.

There’s John Simpson versus Manchester’s Andy Morris for the vacant British Featherweight title for starters and then there’s Kev McIntyre meeting Hartlepool’s Nigel Wright […]

Four Isles ABC held a successful night of boxing at the town hall in Aidrie on Friday night.

The first bout of the night was a youth contest in which current Western District Champion,Jordan McCorry of O’Neil’s ABC (pictured above) outscored four times Scottish Champion Aston Brown of Noble Art by 12-6.

In the second youth […]

Glasgow’s Craig Dickson will fight for the British Masters Welterweight title at the St Andrew’s Club on the 21st of November.

The unbeaten 26 year old, who has now won ten of his 11 professional contests and drawn the other, will face Gavin Down of Bolsover for the title. It will be the first time Craig […]

Kenny Anderson has won gold in the 81kg division at this year’s Tammer Tournus tournament in Tampere, Finland. The reigning Scottish senior champion beat Sweden’s Micha Tabagoua 21-11 on points.

And Scotland coach John McKay was very impressed by the Craigmillar boxer’s performance. “Kenny Anderson’s two wins were exceptional as the two Swedish boxers were very […]

Forgewood’s Mark Hastie and Leith Victoria’s Stevie Simmons are through to the finals of the Tammer Tournus boxing tournament in Tampere Finland.

Fighting in the 64kg category semi-finals, Mark beat Moroccan Adil Bella 21-18 on points and faces Willie Nelson of the USA in today’s finals. Earlier in the week, the Forgewood boxer beat Finland’s Jaakko […]

Aberdeen’s Lee McAllister will face the only boxer to beat him as a professional when he fight’s for the IBO’s Inter-Continental Light Welterweight title at the Beach Ballroom in Aberdeen on the 29th of October.

Dean Hickman, the current English Midlands Light Welterweight champion, inflicted McAllister’s only defeat in 18 fights when he won controversially on […]

Lightweight Dave Stewart beat Judex Meemea comfortably on points last night at the York Hall in Bethnal Green.

Against the wild and unpredictable style of Meemea, Stewart used his typically composed and efficient style to record an easy 60-55 points win over six rounds.

Next stop for the Irvine born boxer who has now won all 17 […]

London-based Lightweight Dave Stewart has a British title eliminator against Danny Hunt lined up for early next year, but beforehand he will face Judex Meemea on the Junior Witter v Colin Lynes undercard at the York Hall in Bethnal Green this Friday.

“I am approaching this with 100% dedication,” said the 30 year old […]

Nedal Hussein arrives in Scotland on the 26th of October ahead of his world title showdown with WBO Featherweight supremo, Scott Harrison, but the war of words that is now almost obligatory as far as pre-fight hype goes has already started in earnest.

“Scott Harrison has got his work cut out for him on November […]

Stevie Simmons will be looking for his third gold medal in international competition in a month when he wears the Scotland vest at the Tammer Turnaus which takes place in Tampere, Finland, between the 19th and the 23rd of October.

Craig McEwan has had to pull out of the squad because of an injury to his […]

Barry Morrison retained his British Masters Light Welterweight title with a convincing points win against Tony Montana at the Motherwell Civic Centre last night.

Beforehand, Brendan Ingle promised that “Wherever he goes, whoever he takes on, Tony comes to fight you.” That will have been news to Barry Morrison who spent a frustrating ten rounds trying […]

Bannockburn’s Ryan Kerr will now defend his English Super Middleweight title in his adopted hometown of Sunderland on the 3rd of November against Worksop’s Simeon Cover.

Kerr, who is unbeaten in 12 pro starts, was due to face Dean Cockburn, but the Doncaster boxer has withdrawn from the fight. Cover, at 27, will come to the […]

Commonwealth Welterweight Champion, Kevin Anderson, has been told by the Commonwealth Boxing Council that he must fight either Joshua Okine, who he took the title from at the end of last month, or Namibia’s Ali Numembe when making his first mandatory defence.

Okine and Numembe will fight in a Final Eliminator with the winner to challenge […]

Scotland’s Santino Caruana lost on points to Kazakstan’s N. Nurlam in the opening session of the 1989 60kg class at the World Cadet Boxing
Championships being held in Liverpool.

Sonny made a good start in the bout leading 6-4 after the first round but was down 11-8 after the second. The third saw high scoring as Sonny […]

Leith Victoria’s Stevie Simmons picked up his second gold medal in as many weeks with victory in the 91kg category at the Vajdin Lamaj multi-nations boxing tournament in Albania.

The Scottish champion and Commonwealth Championships silver medalist beat Albania’s Sead Bushati, stopping him in the fourth round with a cut and very badly swollen left eye. […]

Tommy Cannon has been forced to pull out of his planned outing in Ireland this weekend through injury. The Coatbridge Super Middleweight was to have fought Brian Magee at the National Stadium in Dublin.

Ballieston’s John Bothwell will be on the undercard though when he faces 34 year old Dublin southpaw, Paul Griffin. The Irish boxer […]

A new tournament in recognition of the late Jim Watt and Andy Grant and their contribution to Scottish boxing has been announced by Amateur Boxing Scotland.

The structure of the tournament will be youth and novice boxers with under ten bouts born in 1988 to 1993 inclusive. The inaugural Jim Watt Andy Grant Memorial Tournament will […]

Granite City’s James Ancliffe emerged victorious as two reigning Scottish senior champions went head to head at Bathgate ABC’s show at the Masonic Hall in Armadale on Friday night.

Ancliffe, who is the reigning Scottish senior champion at 54kg, met the current champion at 57kg, Gilmerton’s Jason Hastie, and scored an impressive 20-10 win on […]