IT is almost midnight in a windowless room deep inside the bowels of the Braehead Arena and a father and son are having a back-and-forth across a small table. Sitting between them is Josh Taylor, fresh from despatching Ohara Davies over seven rounds to add the Englishman’s WBC silver super-lightweight belt to his own Commonwealth title. The 26 year-old is sporting a couple of new bruises on his face but, beyond that, the relatively few obvious battle wounds tell of a surprisingly straightforward night’s work.

The subject of the family discussion going on around Taylor centres on his next possible opponent. Barry McGuigan, the legendary former featherweight world champion and now founder and CEO of Cyclone Promotions with whom Taylor is a leading client, agrees Ricky Burns, the former three-weight world champion, would be the obvious choice.

“But I always defer to Shane when it comes to things like this,” says McGuigan of his son and Taylor’s trainer. “You’ve been calling him [Burns] out since the second fight!” responds the younger McGuigan, adding an extra moment of levity to an already good-humoured, celebratory scene.

If the prospect of Taylor and Burns colliding seemed a hopeful one back when the Commonwealth gold medallist was just starting out in the paid ranks two years ago, then it seems increasingly more feasible now.

Taylor, from Prestonpans, has now won his first 10 professional bouts, nine within the distance. The ease with which he took care of Davies, himself unbeaten until that point, will push him even closer to a crack at the world title that he and his camp desperately crave.

Burns, meanwhile, is in the autumn of his career. At 34 years old – eight years Taylor’s senior - he is again looking for a fresh start having lost his world title in a unification bout with Julius Indongo in April.

There has been talk of a match-up with stablemate Anthony Crolla but the prospect of an all-Scots bout against Taylor is the one that would really get the juices flowing.

Burns was at ringside on Saturday to see Davies, his training partner, clinically taken apart by Taylor’s speed and power and may be wary of putting his reputation on the line against such a tricky opponent.

Taylor, though, recalled Alex Arthur’s willingness to do the same back in 2006 against a then up-and-coming Burns – Arthur claiming the European, British and Commonwealth super-featherweight titles with a unanimous points decision at Meadowbank – and hoped the man from Coatbridge would now do the same for him.

“I’d love to fight Ricky,” enthused Taylor. “When this fight with Davies was getting talked about Ricky said he wouldn’t entertain a fight with me as I’d need to get through his team-mate first. Well, I’ve fought him now and blown him away.

“I respect Ricky as a person and a fighter. He’s done great for boxing and he’s a nice guy but I think the time has come for me to fight him. It would be a massive fight for Scotland and I think the Scottish fans deserve a massive fight like that. That would be great for me next.

“Alex Arthur gave Ricky a chance at the start of his career when he was up-and-coming so why can’t Ricky do that for me? I think it would be a great fight. I’d love to fight him at Edinburgh Castle, the SSE Hydro, Hampden or even Easter Road – anywhere outside probably would be great.

“The castle, though, would be a real iconic setting. You don’t know with the weather here. But it would be a sell-out anywhere.”

Taylor did not wait to call out Burns, gesticulating directly at the former world champion as he was hoisted in the air once Davies had turned his back on him and the referee had halted the fight. It was a provocative gesture but Burns, typically composed, did not respond in kind.

He would not rush into accepting a fight with Taylor but admitted it was “inevitable” now and telling the Cyclone camp to take it up with Eddie Hearn and his promoters at Matchroom.

“Josh shouted ‘you’re next!’ to me,” admitted Burns. “I just say, speak to my team and we’ll take it from there. I’m fighting in October but nothing is set in stone.

“If he wants to fight me then make me an offer. I think a fight with Josh is inevitable, it’s definitely going to happen at some point.

“It’s not so much Josh talking about it this last few months, it’s more been Barry McGuigan. Ohara got well paid to come to Glasgow to fight and I said he’d need to come through him first.

“It will be the same again for them. It would draw a huge crowd in Scotland, that’s for sure.”

The prospect of fighting his stablemate, though, also hasn’t been ruled out. “If I was offered the Crolla fight I would jump at it,” admitted Burns. “It would be a massive British fight. We’ve spoken about this before. It started to kick around on social media and Anthony got on board and said he’d be up for it. I think it would be a great fight for the fans with two of the best boxers in Britain.”