Boxing: Young heads out to LA for tough regime

Published on Wednesday 18 February 2009 08:58

GILMERTON professional welterweight boxer Gary Young is set to move to Los Angeles to train at the legendary Wildcard gym under coach Cassius Green.

Young is awaiting a visa but he said: "I had a long telephone conversation last week with Cassius Green.

"As a result, Green has agreed to represent me when I fly to Los Angeles within the next two weeks to re-ignite my boxing career at Freddie Roach's Wildcard gym."

Green coached ring legend Muhammad Ali's boxing daughter Leila Ali and worked with world champions such as "Sugar" Shane Mosley and 1980s light- heavyweight Eddie Mustapha Muhammad.

Young, 26, is expecting a tough regime in LA and said: "Green has warned me that I can't afford to hang around fighting six-rounders so he will be putting me in from day one in tough ten-rounders against experienced American opponents.

"That's fair enough with me as I'll only ever find out just how good I really am by taking such fights instead of boxing in meaningless six-round undercard bouts in Scotland which teach me nothing."

Meanwhile, Capital lightweight Alex Arthur also confirmed yesterday that he has been assured that he will box a non-British opponent on his comeback bout on March 27 at Glasgow's Bellahouston Leisure Centre.

He said: "I'm delighted to have been told by my promoter Frank Warren that my opponent on March 27 will be a tough overseas boxer which excites me a lot and makes me more motivated to win well then.''

"Ten hard rounds with a tough foreigner will give me a great indication of how things are likely to pan out at my new lightweight division level."