Nelson is anxious to become a big hit It has been a long and winding road to independence for the trainer, Billy Nelson, but the 40-year-old residential social worker from Glasgow now oversees a group of fighters at Newarthill Amateur Boxing Club that includes at least one potential world champion.

Nelson has risen from being assistant to Peter Harrison, a position he held for 13 years, to the status of trainer to five of the boxers scheduled to fight on the Braveheart Promotions bill at the SECC in Glasgow on Saturday evening.

However, having been partly instrumental in guiding the fortunes of Scott Harrison and Alex Arthur, who will contest the WBO super-featherweight title against holder Joan Guzman, Nelson is keen to produce a world champion of his own.

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Nelson has been quick to make his mark since parting company with Peter Harrison when he was appointed Amateur Boxing Scotland's development coach.

Included among the Nelson-trained fighters appearing on the SECC promotion are Willie Limond, the former Commonwealth lightweight champion who tops the bill against fellow Scot, Martin Watson, for the International Boxing Organisation inter-continental crown, and Kenny Anderson, the Commonwealth Games gold medallist.

Nelson has high hopes that one or both will aspire to the top level. He says he will always be grateful to his mentor, Harrison, for giving him his big break. "Peter was my amateur trainer and, when I stopped boxing, he asked me to become his assistant," said Nelson. "That was 14 years ago and I have plenty of reasons to be grateful to Peter, who gave me a chance to work closely with Scott, who is a fantastic fighter.

"I had learned a lot when Peter trained me and I like to think I have taken some of his methods and added a few of my own ideas to what I do. I am thriving on doing my own thing and my ambition is to train a world champion. I think I have every chance of doing that with Willie Limond and Kenny Anderson, in particular.

"Anderson has a good boxing brain and he is progressing along the right lines, not just being thrown into fights to get a padded record.

"I fully expect him to be challenging for the British title by the end of the year."