(March 5th) Live from Glasgow, Scotland, we bring you the launch press conference for "Land of the Brave", featuring a highly anticipated main event where former undisputed champion Josh Taylor faces off against Ekow Essuman, a formidable titleholder in his own right. The event also showcases a stacked undercard, including Lee McGregor, Nathaniel Collins, Aloys Jr., David Jamieson and Aston Brown among others. This marks a significant return of boxing to Scotland, with the event set to be broadcast on DAZN, the new home for Queensberry Promotions' fights.

Haddington, Scotland, former undisputed super lightweight world champion Josh “The Tartan Tornado” Taylor will make his welterweight debut against Nottingham, based Botswanan, WBO European Welterweight Champion Ekow “The Engine” Essuman, May 24th, at the OVO Hydro Arena in Glasgow, Scotland.

The 34-year-old, former undisputed light welterweight champion Taylor, 19-2, 13Ko’s looking to reboot his career at welterweight returns after back-to-back losses — a June 2023 decision to Teofimo “Takeover” Lopez and a May 2025 rematch defeat to Jack “El Gato” Catterall.

The 35-year-old, Essuman, 21-1, 8Ko’s since suffering a BBBofC British, Commonwealth Boxing Council and IBF European Welterweight title loss to Harry Scarff, November 2023 enters the fight with momentum, most recently recording a WBO European Welterweight title claiming tenth round TKO stoppage of Owen Cooper July 2024 successfully making his first defense a ten round majority decision win over Ben Vaughan in his last outing November 2nd, 2024       

The 12-round bout to headline a Frank Warren, Queensberry Promotions card to be broadcast live on DAZN marks Queensberry's return to Scotland and the beginning of their partnership with DAZN.

In chief support will be an all-Scottish featherweight clash between unbeaten former British champion Nathaniel Collins, 15-0, 7Ko’s and former European bantamweight champion Lee McGregor, 15-1-1, 11Ko’s.

Frank Warren, Chairman of Queensberry Promotions, expressed his excitement about the event: "We are starting as we mean to go on, and I am looking forward to returning to Scotland with the nation's biggest star, Josh Taylor, headlining and rebooting his career at welterweight."

Tickets for Taylor vs. Essuman will go on sale soon, with further undercard announcements expected in the coming weeks.

About DAZN Group

DAZN Group is one of the fastest growing sports media companies in the world. Headquartered in the UK and with employees in over 25 countries, our businesses touch every aspect of the way fans engage with sports; from production, through to content distribution and commercialization. DAZN Group is home to DAZN, the leading global sport destination, as well as the popular sport portal, DAZN News. DAZN is leading the charge to give sports fans around the world access to sport anytime, anywhere. DAZN guarantees affordable access on most connected devices including smart TVs, set-top boxes, streaming sticks, smartphones, tablets, PCs and game consoles. DAZN is now live in more than 200 countries and territories after first launching in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Japan in 2016.

DAZN is a leading digital sports platform in Italy, Spain, Germany, Belgium, Portugal, Japan, Canada, US and the UK.  Its wide range of exclusive content includes top-flight football from the world’s most popular competitions – Bundesliga, English Premier League, J.League, LaLiga, Serie A, and the UEFA Champions League, in addition to the biggest sports from around the world - Formula 1, NFL, NBA, MotoGP and the UFC.  

DAZN is the NFL’s global partner and, from the 2023 season, will be the only place for fans around the world to watch every NFL match. DAZN is a global home for boxing and combat sports through its partnerships with Matchroom Boxing the Professional Fighters League. With the most authentic voice in the sport, DAZN is the only brand that can reach across all markets and audiences cohesively in boxing, unlike any other broadcaster. DAZN is also a global home for Women’s Football with UEFA Women’s Champions League and Finetwork Liga F.  DAZN is adding more and more sport to its platform to create a destination for sports fans.  

DAZN is reimagining the way people enjoy sport. With a single, frictionless platform, sports fans can watch, bet, play, share, socialise, and buy tickets, NFTs and merchandise. Live and on-demand sports content, anywhere, in any language, on any device – only on DAZN.  

DAZN is a global, privately-owned company with employees in over 25 countries.

DAZN is available on most connected devices including smart TVs, set-top boxes, streaming sticks, smartphones, tablets, PCs and game consoles, ensuring that fans have access to ground-breaking rights catalogue and slate of incredible content. In the UK and globally, DAZN can be accessed on Samsung, LG, Sony and Panasonic Smart TVs and on Games Consoles including Playstation and Xbox. Subscribers also have access to DAZN on their Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire TV Stick, Google Chromecast and Apple TV and find the app on their iPhone, iPad, android and mobile.  

About Frank Warren

In an era spanning over 35 years, Hall of Fame boxing Promoter and Manager Frank Warren has worked with some of the biggest fighters in boxing history. Hamed, Bruno, Tyson, Calzaghe, Benn, Collins, Eubank, Khan and Hatton are some of the iconic names he has promoted during his career.

BoxNation

In 2011 Frank launched the innovative direct to consumer TV model, BoxNation as part of a vision that saw the sports TV market evolving from the traditional reliance on major satellite and cable broadcasters.

Since then BoxNation has gone from strength to strength becoming the UK’s fastest growing independent subscription broadcaster in the process and showcasing the biggest fights from at home and abroad, along the way.

Through Queensberry Promotions and BoxNation, the future of British boxing has never looked in such great shape.

About TNT Sports

BT Sport is a group of pay television sports channels provided by BT Consumer; a division of BT Group in the United Kingdom and Ireland that was launched on 1 August 2013. The channels are based at the former International Broadcast Centre at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London. As of July, 18th, TNT Sports is the new name for BT Sport.