A squad of 15 boxers are making final preparations before heading to Canada on the 11th of December for a week long trip to Canada.

The Scotland squad will compete against Canada in St. Catharine’s on the 11th and in Orangeville on the 18th and will be accompanied by manager Donald Campbell, national coach, John McKay, […]

Light Welterweight Barry Morrison will face the toughest test of his pro career when he steps into the ring at the Fife Ice Arena in Kirkcaldy on December the 9th against Dean Hickman.

26 year old Hickman has lost just once in 14 pro fights and beat Lee McAllister back in 2003, although pulled out of […]

The European, Commonwealth and British titles will be at stake when Alex Arthur fights Ricky Burns at the Meadowbank Arena on February the 18th to set up yet another East West showdown.

Confirmation that the fight will go ahead came in a conference call held today - as will the bout between Glasgow’s Willie Limond and […]

The Eastern District Senior Boxing Championships went extremely well with 17 bouts planned, but two finals decided by walkover due to injury in the semis.

Willie Bilan of Denbeath had to rely on all his experience to overcome the hardworking Hawick lad, Arkadiusz Nalepa, 15-14 on points, but he withdrew from his final against his clubmate […]

Scotland’s national coach, John McKay, has described Craig McEwan’s gold winning performance at the Multi-Nations tournament in Ireland as “absolutely superb”.

The Clovenstone boxer beat Russian Alexey Shcherbakov 32-23 to claim victory in the 75kg category, a victory that bodes well for next year’s Commonwealth Games.

“It was probably Craig’s best performance in the the last two […]

Cleland ABC put on a fantastic event in front of over 300 spectators with the Ally Gilmour Memorial Show last night.

Paddy Pollock of Lanarkshire ABC produced the performance of the evening with a level headed boxing masterclass over a very game Gary Brady of Glenboig ABC.

Also impressive was “Sonny” Caruana (Newarthill) […]

Clovenstone’s Craig McEwan has won gold for Scotland at the Multi Nations Tournament Being held in Ballybunion, Ireland.

He beat Russian Alexey Shcherbakov 32-23 to claim victory in the 75kg category.

Craig McEwan is through to the finals of the Multi Nations Tournament being held in Ballybunion, Ireland, following a win in the semi-finals yesterday afternoon.

The Clovenstone boxer beat Kennedy Katende of Sweden 29-10 on points and will now face Alexey Shcherbakov in the 75kg final.

There was disappointment for Kenny Anderson whose semi-final against Darren O’Neill […]

Kenny Anderson is through to the 81kg semi finals of the Multi Nations tournament in Ireland following victory this evening against Mariusz Welc of Poland. The Craigmillar boxer won 29-13 on points.

Mark Hastie and Fundo Mhura are both out of the competition following defeats at the hands of Irish boxers. Mark lost a high […]

Commonwealth Welterweight champion Kevin Anderson will make the first defence of his title against Ghana’s Agoe “Tyson” Ashong at Kirkcaldy Ice Rink on the 9th of December.

The unbeaten 22 year-old claimed the title with a thrilling split decision over Ashong’s fellow Ghanaian Joshua Okine in September.

It represents a tough test for Anderson, who has racked […]

The Sunday Herald said it would be Sergey Gulyakevich and tonight’s Evening Times names Ricky Burns. There’s still nothing official yet, but there seems little doubt that Alex Arthur will defend his European title, and possibly his British and Commonwealth titles too, on the 18th of February at Meadowbank Leisure Centre.

Ricky Burns, the unbeaten 22 […]

The Scotland senior squad competing at the Multi Nations tournament at the Ballybunion Golf & Sports Hotel in Ireland this week got off to a mixed start today.

Mitch Prince, who is representing Scotland in the 60kg category along with Gary McArthur, got off to a winning start by beating Poland’s Marcin Legowski 16-13 on points. […]

Welterweight Craig Dickson beat David Kehoe at the St Andrew’s Club last night to remain unbeaten in 12. The Glaswegian looked on the verge of stopping the journeyman from Northampton on several occasions, but ended up winning on points by 80-73 over eight rounds.

Originally Dickson was due to face Gavin Down for the British […]

Cardenden ABC held a boxing show at the Dean Park Hotel on Friday night, with Commonwealth Welterweight Champion, Kevin Anderson, not only signing a pair of gloves for the auction, but turning up in person to see the youngsters in action.

Three Cardenden boxers were in action, but none of them could produce a win for […]

Alex Arthur is being lined up for a European Super Featherweight title defence against Sergey Gulyakevich next February according to a report in today’s Sunday Herald.

The Belarussian is unbeaten in 17 fights since turning pro in 2003 and is ranked number three in Europe by the European Boxing Union with champion Arthur and mandatory challenger, […]

Welterweight Kris Carslaw (Paisley YMCA) showed why he is in the Scottish Commonwealth Games squad with a very strong performance over a game and ever improving James Buchanan (Barn ABC) at last night’s Paisley YMCA Show.

Following a fairly even matched first round, Carslaw stepped up a gear with a mixture of some masterful boxing […]

A packed house turned out to Airdrie Working Mens Club last night to cheer on 22 boxers contesting 11 very well matched bouts. Five Four Isles fighters were in action, all winning their contests which ensured the majority of the capacity crowd went home happy - well maybe a bit smug as happy is […]

It was honours even at Pettycur Bay on Friday night where a Scottish Eastern District Select drew with an English Midlands Counties Select in front of a full house.

It was a thoroughly entertaining evening of boxing, with some excellent matchmaking on behalf of Willie Burns from the Eastern District and his counterpart from south of […]

Vinnie Baldassara is Scotland’s new Middleweight Champion following a convincing points win over Craig Lynch.

The 27 year old Clydebank boxer dominated the ten rounder at the Thistle Hotel, Glasgow, and won the title 99-92 on points. Baldassara has now won seven out of ten as a professional.

It was Lynch’s third unsuuceesful attempt to capture a […]

Barrhead’s Brian Peacock made a winning return to the ring at the Western District Senior Boxing Championships held in Glasgow last night when he beat James Cunnungham of Dennistoun in the Light Heavyweight division.

Peacock produced a performance not only sufficient to beat the hard punching Cunningham, but it was also impressive enough to win the […]