Alex Arthur

Alex Arthur, born on 26 June 1978 in Dumbiedykes, Edinburgh, and raised on Drummond Street on the south side of the city, is a Scottish former professional boxer and a political candidate for the Alba Party. Competing from 2000 to 2012, he held the WBO and WBO interim super featherweight titles in 2007. At regional level he held the British super featherweight title twice between 2002 and 2006, and the Commonwealth and European Boxing Union super featherweight titles from 2005 to 2006. He stood as a regional candidate in the 2021 Scottish Parliament election for the Alba Party, where his candidacy quickly became controversial because of comments he had made online.