EDINBURGH'S former WBO super featherweight champion Alex Arthur has scoffed at public suggestions made over the weekend that he is desperately seeking a ring showdown with Amir Khan.
Said Arthur: "While it's true that the injury which KO'd me boxing at Bellahouston last weekend, in what would have been my first ever pro lightweight bout, has virtually cleared up and I will box again in May, talk of me wanting to fight Amir Khan in the near future is nonsense.

"The only circumstance in which I would ever agree to fighting Khan would be in a world title clash, but certainly not any kind of bout like a non-title ten rounder. Such a fight would be economic nonsense for both Khan and I.

"My comeback strategy has not wavered from what I outlined a couple of months ago, two eight or ten round non-title scraps to get me used to boxing at lightweight then some of kind of world lightweight title fight