Alex Arthur "talks rubbish" and annoys a senior Scottish boxing man

"Amazing" Alex Arthur, Edinburgh's former WBO super-featherweight world title holder has shown amazing accuracy for shooting himself in the foot verbally when he recently claimed to be the best boxer in Scotland, at this present time.

Why AAA allowed himself to alienate the local crowd when he boxes on the undercard of Ricky Burns' WBO super-featherweight challenge to Roman Martinez on 4 September, with this subjective and personal opinion, allegedly made by him, is beyond the comprehension of this writer.

Arthur's assertion has been roundly criticised by none other than Alex Morrison, the well known Glasgow promoter and former boxer of note himself. "Big" Alex is quoted as retorting;

"Alex (Arthur) talks rubbish and forgets he got his (WBO) title posted to him and lost it at the first time of asking (against Dagenham's Nicky Cook."

"Ricky (Burns) will at least challenge for the title in the ring. When he and Alex fought, Ricky still had his amateur trainers in his corner."

Having been present at the bout between Arthur and Burns in the Meadowbank arena back in 2006, you'd have to acknowledge that Arthur won it on points, but it was by no means a one-sided affair with Burns only running out of steam towards the end of the first 12 rounder he'd fought.