WATCH: Top boxers join tributes to fallen Dundee fighter Mike Towell
Some of the biggest names in British boxing have been paying tribute to tragic Dundee fighter Mike Towell, who died on Friday.
Some of the biggest names in British boxing have been paying tribute to tragic Dundee fighter Mike Towell, who died on Friday.
The welterweight, known as "Iron Mike Towell", was stretchered from the ring after a fifth-round loss to Dale Evans in a televised bout at a St Andrew's Sporting Club event in Glasgow.
The boxer's family were at his bedside in his final hours and were joined by his manager, Tommy Gilmour, and St Andrew's Sporting Club owner Iain Wilson.
It later emerged Towell had cut short a training session after suffering a headache in the weeks before the fatal fight.
Fellow Scottish boxer and super-lightweight champion Ricky Burns has paid tribute to Mike, but insists the sport is as safe as it can be:
An appeal set up by former world champion boxer Ricky Hatton to raise money for Mike's partner Chloe Ross, and the couple's young son, Rocco, has surpassed its £20,000 target and has now raised more than £30,000, with Hatton putting £5,000 of his own cash towards it as well.
Ricky says the just giving page was something he felt he had to do:
Meanwhile Mike's opponent that night Dale Evans has spoken of his heartbreak following the incident.
The Welsh boxer Evans told BBC Wales Sport: "I feel like I am responsible. I can't stop thinking about Mike and his poor family. All my thoughts are with them."
Evans also said the incident saw him consider retiring from the sport but that he would now like to win the British title in Towell's memory.