IT may have been billed as "The Homecoming" but Ricky Burns' first defence of the World Boxing Organisation lightweight title, against Paulus Moses at the Braehead Arena tonight, could more accurately be described as the gateway.
IT may have been billed as \"The Homecoming\" but Ricky Burns' first defence of the World Boxing Organisation lightweight title, against Paulus Moses at the Braehead Arena tonight, could more accurately be described as the gateway.
Both the challenger, Paulus Moses, and Ricky Burns, the champion, were well inside the 135lb limit. Picture: PA
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Bert Mitchell
In Moses, a former World Boxing Association lightweight champion whose promoter is Don King, Burns finds himself pitted against an opponent who carries the type of gravitas in the USA that would help the Scot register some sort of presence in the States should the Coatbridge fighter beat the Namibian.
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