Boxing

Josh Taylor reckons Edinburgh Castle would be the perfect venue for his attempt to dethrone Ricky Burns as the king of Scottish boxing.

Josh Taylor is the new WBC Silver super lightweight champion after stopping Ohara Davies in the seventh round in their grudge bout at a raucous Braehead Arena last night.

The tension finally reached breaking point yesterday as Josh Taylor and arch-rival Ohara Davies had to be 
separated after their highly-
anticipated super lightweight match-up threatened to explode into life 24 hours early.

Ohara Davies couldn’t resist the opportunity to fire off a cheap shot at boxing legend and former WBA featherweight champion Barry McGuigan ahead of tomorrow night’s super lightweight clash with Josh Taylor.

Manny Pacquiao lost his WBO welterweight world title to Jeff Horn in a stunning, unanimous points decision in a Sunday afternoon bout billed as the Battle of Brisbane in front of more than 51,000 people.

Barry McGuigan believes Josh Taylor’s duel with Ohara Davies is one of the best domestic match-ups boxing has seen for 40 years.

Efforts to create a permanent tribute to boxing great Ken Buchanan in Edinburgh have received a boost.

It’s official, the moment would-be martial arts experts in “Tapout” shirts everywhere have been waiting for has arrived, the fight is on.

Floyd Mayweather’s August 26 bout with Conor McGregor will be “the biggest fight ever”, according to UFC president Dana White.

Anthony Joshua can make the same game-changing impact on boxing as Tiger Woods achieved in golf, according to Barry Hearn.

Anthony Joshua is willing to face Wladimir Klitschko in a world heavyweight title rematch after the Ukrainian revealed it is the only bout that could tempt him to fight on.

Anthony Joshua heralded the start of a new era of heavyweight boxing by dramatically knocking out Wladimir Klitschko in 11 rounds.

Anthony Joshua is the millennial alpha male, towering above those who would be him, shoulders like a motorway bridge, arms made of oak.

Wladimir Klitschko intensified his mind games with Anthony Joshua ahead of Saturday’s world heavyweight title fight by revealing he has already recorded his prediction of the outcome.

Tommy Gilmour says he feared no-one and respected everybody during a career dedicated to the promotion of boxing.

Ricky Burns hinted that he would continue boxing after losing his WBA super-lightweight belt to Julius 
Indongo in a unification clash at the SSE Hydro in Glasgow on 
Saturday night.

Julius Indongo’s camp have stoked up the tension ahead of tonight’s world title unification fight with Ricky Burns by accusing the Scot of benefiting from home-town decisions.

Ricky Burns intends to show Julius Indongo he is not the retiring type when they clash in their super-lightweight unification fight on Saturday night.

Tributes have poured in from all over the world for a popular Scottish Muay Thai boxer who is understood to have died from heatstroke.