Gary Cornish

Giant British heavyweights seem to be a thing now a days with the likes of David Price, Tyson Fury and Richard Towers all getting plenty of attention, though one name that often seems to be forgotten is the emerging Scottish fighter Gary Cornish. Stood at 6'7" Cornish is another giant from British and is yet another fighter who is intent on making his name in the heavyweight division.

Despite having only had 9 amateur bouts (winning them all, 6 by KO) Cornish, known as "The Highlander" has had the hype machine going crazy with his manager Tommy Gilmour believing Cornish could become the first Scottish Heavyweight world champion. Maybe that day will come one day though for now Cornish, with Gilmour behind him, is taking baby steps and slowly being shaped into the fighter that Gilmour wants him to be.

Cornish made his professional debut in April 2011 by stopping Preston based Heavyweight journeyman Howard Daley in 2 rounds. Cornish then followed up that impress victory by stopping Hastings Rasani in 4 rounds (due to a cut). Impressively just 5 months later Rasani would score a draw with former World title challenger Albert Sosnowski. In September of '11 Cornish would head the final bell for the first time as he scored a clear points victory over the tough Rolandas Cesna.

In Cornish's most recent fight (November 2011) he would rematch Hastings Rasani, this time in an 8 round bout. After dropping the Rasani twice in round 3 Cornish failed to stop the Zimbabwean though took a wide decision with the score of 80-71.

Tomorrow night (Saturday January 21st) Gary Cornish will face the busy Latvian Remigijus Ziausys on an under-card bout at the Liverpool Olympia. Ziausys' record reads a rather ugly 20-46-3 (10) though he has proven himself to be a durable fighter having only been stopped once (by former European Cruiserweight champion Alexander Frenkel). This is despite facing fighters including Dereck Chisora, Alexander Kotlobay, Robert Helenius, Mariusz Wach, Bogdan Dinu and Giacobbe Fragomeni. Whilst we all expect Cornish to win, a stoppage victory would really be impressive from the giant from Scotland who will tower some 9 inches above his Latvian opponent.

Whilst I've not found any footage of Gary "The Highlander" Cornish, we will hopefully see highlights of his fight with Ziausys on Sky TV on the undercard of David Price v John McDermott tomorrow.