At Glasgow, Scotland: Ricky Burns vs. Andreas Evensen, 12 rounds, for Burns' WBO junior lightweight title; Paul Appleby vs. Joseph Laryea, 12 rounds, junior lightweights; Alex Arthur vs. Gary Reid, 8 rounds, lightweights; Steven Ormond vs. TBA, 6 rounds, junior lightweights; John Thain vs. Iain Eldridge, 4 rounds, junior middleweights; Callum Johnson vs. TBA, 4 rounds, light heavyweights; Tobias Webb vs. Dean Walker, 4 rounds, super middleweights; Craig Evans vs. TBA, 4 rounds, junior lightweights; George Michael Carmen vs. Wayne Downing, 4 rounds, welterweights; Michael Roberts vs. Dan Carr, 4 rounds, featherweights; Jason Hastie vs. Robin Deakin, 4 rounds, featherweights
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Last updated: 04-12-2010 from 21:00 until 23:00
04-12-2010 on 11:06
At Glasgow, Scotland: Ricky Burns vs. Andreas Evensen, 12 rounds, for Burns' WBO junior lightweight title; Paul Appleby vs. Joseph Laryea, 12 rounds, junior lightweights; Alex Arthur vs. Gary Reid, 8 rounds, lightweights; Steven Ormond vs. TBA, 6 rounds, junior lightweights; John Thain vs. Iain Eldridge, 4 rounds, junior middleweights; Callum Johnson vs. TBA, 4 rounds, light heavyweights; Tobias Webb vs. Dean Walker, 4 rounds, super middleweights; Craig Evans vs. TBA, 4 rounds, junior lightweights; George Michael Carmen vs. Wayne Downing, 4 rounds, welterweights; Michael Roberts vs. Dan Carr, 4 rounds, featherweights; Jason Hastie vs. Robin Deakin, 4 rounds, featherweights
Ricky Burns takes on Andreas Evensen for the WBO super-featherweight title at Braehead Arena. Burns takes an easy first title defense after his shocking upset of Roman Martinez in a great fight earlier in the year. Evensen is a 13-1 Norseman who has fought mostly out of Finland, and whose lone loss came to Benoit Gaudet. Fellow Scotchman Appleby was knocked out by Martin Lindsay last year to end a meteoric rise, and this is his first decent opponent since that loss. It's hard to tell much about Laryea, who doesn't look like much on paper, but a lot of Ghanians don't have complete records on Boxrec and he's at least good enough to have won their national super featherweight title. It appears the goal may be to set up a fight between Burns and Appleby, which would be a huge fight in Scotland.
