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Happy birthday ex world boxing champion Alex Arthur.

Alex was born in his grandparents' house in the Dumbiedykes district of Edinburgh, where he lived till he was three when the family moved to Drummond Street, I read an interview of his once where he talked about places around there, an area that I knew very well, Stewart's bar was a great wee place, and the legendary Woods Barbershop in the street.

Arthur had his first professional contest in November 2000 when he defeated fellow debutant Richmond Asante at the Wythenshawe forum in Manchester, after 12 straight victories earned him a crack at the vacant British Super Featherweight title when he challenged Dewsbury's Steven Conway at the Braehead Arena in Glasgow on 19 October 2002. The win established Arthur as a force on the domestic scene and he followed up the victory with two defences against Carl Greaves and fellow Scot Willie Limond. One more victory would have given him the Lonsdale belt for keeps and that was when the undefeated prospect with a record of 16–0 ran into Longford's Michael Gomez.

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 animosity 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.

Gomez proved his critics wrong when on the night of the fight Gomez arrived in prime condition and with aggression, determination and desire.Eventually, Gomez won this bad tempered contested fight with an explosive knock out of Arthur in the fifth round. Arthur's performance in the early rounds and his resilience before the KO saw the bout hailed as one of the best fights in Britain for a decade. Boxing promoter Frank Warren called the fight "the greatest contest seen on these shores since Nigel Benn beat Gerald McClellan in 1995"

He made his comeback the next year on 27 March 2004 by stopping Michael Kizza in the first round for the IBF Inter-Continental super featherweight title going on to make two defences then beating Russian Boris Sinitsin for the European title,holding the British, Commonwealth and European title belts. Arthur then had an all Scottish fight when putting all three titles on the line against Coatbridge boxer Ricky Burns, winning a 12 round decision. His next two fights were defences of his European belt before a great win when he stopped Koba Gogoladze in the tenth round to win the interim WBO super-featherweight title recognised as one of the 4 main 'World' belts, eh made a defence in a close fight against Brit Steve Foster Jr, expecting to take on Dominican Joan Guzmán who held the full version of the title, he was elevated to the title when the Domincan moved up a weight vacating the title.

Arthur however surrendered the title in his very next fight, losing a unanimous points decision to England's Nicky Cook at the MEN Arena in Manchester on 9 September 2008. Arthur claimed that he had been "robbed" he also added "It was three English judges – in England. A fighter knows in his heart if he has won or lost a fight and I really thought I had won".

Since losing his titles Arthur won 5 out of the next 6 bouts, moving into promoting at the same time, he retired from boxing aged 35 on his birthday 5 years ago, after 14 months without a fight.

Turning 40 today, Arthur has his own promotions company, Amazing Alex Arthur Promotion as well as recently transforming a former office in Rose Street in Edinburgh’s city centre into a gym where he hopes to produce a new wave of boxing champions.

Arthur has something of a vested interest in making his academy a success. Two of his three sons, Alex and Machlan box themselves and so will be regulars in the gym. It is 10 year-old Machlan in particular who has shown real signs of following in his father’s footsteps with many outside observers tipping the lad to be a future world champion himself.

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