Andy Burke
BBC Sport Scotland

Just more than four years to the day since Josh Taylor's finest hour, the Scot finds himself back at the bottom of the mountain starting out all over again.

The reboot of a career that scaled the heights then hit the skids starts at the Hydro in Glasgow on Saturday night, when Taylor faces the unheralded Ekow Essuman.

He has moved up to welterweight, changed promotor and says he has the fire back in his belly. This will be our first look, according to the man himself, at Josh Taylor 2.0.

That night in Las Vegas in May 2021 when Taylor defeated Jose Ramirez to become the first – and so far only – fighter from the UK to capture all four belts in one division remains fresh in the mind, but how much of that Taylor is still there?

Read more of Andy's scene-setter here.

Josh Taylor takes the first step in his bid to become a two-weight world champion against Ekow Essuman in Glasgow this evening.

After capturing all four belts at light-welterweight, Taylor has made the decision to step up a division to welterweight, and is looking to get his career back on track following back-to-back defeats to Teofimo Lopez and Jack Catterall.

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