GARY YOUNG, the Edinburgh welterweight, has been left counting the cost of an injury in the gym which has denied him the chance to challenge Barrie Jones for the vacant Celtic title.
Young had been scheduled to appear on the undercard of Alex Arthur's WBO interim super-featherweight title defence against Steve Foster at Meadowbank on Saturday week but, instead, he faces weeks of recovery from a broken bone in his right hand, the second such injury he has suffered in the past four months.
Young said: "I feel like the guy who is made redundant in the run-up to Christmas. It's a bitter pill to swallow at the end of 12 hard weeks training just when I had stepped up a gear.
"The injury is the same as the one I had in September when I fractured a bone in the first round against David Kirk and fought on to win on points. I had my hand in a splint for a fortnight followed by a further three weeks in plaster and it will be the same this time."
Source: http://www.theherald.co.uk/sport/headlines/display.var.1884654.0.0.php
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