Alex Arthur, nicknamed "Amazing" Alex Arthur, (born 26 June 1978 in Edinburgh) is a professional boxer from Edinburgh, Scotland. Arthur is the British, Commonwealth, European Boxing Union (EBU) and WBO super featherweight champion. He is trained by Austin Handren. Michael Gomez fought Arthur for the British and WBA International super featherweight titles in front of a sold out Meadowbank Stadium, Edinburgh, Scotland in October 2003. This was the first professional boxing card in the city for almost 20 years. A war of words was waged between the two fighters prior to the fight, Arthur had stirred up the anomousity between the pair stating in an interview that Gomez "gets involved in wars with journeymen" and that "looking deep into Gomez’s eyes at the press conference, I’m not sure even he believes he can win. He’ll be so fired up I expect it’ll take me eight or nine rounds but, if his resistance has gone as people are saying, it could be a lot sooner" and "I see about 20 ways to beat him. I'm just looking forward to shutting him up.".
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