Watt will lead a toast to the St Andrew’s Sporting Club once the haggis has been addressed, which is all part of the Burns’ Night ritual.
Gilmour’s mind will no doubt drift back four decades, when he had a very different role at the club on the night of Buchanan v Watt.
“I was working in the corner, learning my trade, handing up the spit bucket and getting £3 at the end of the night,” he recalls.
“A decade and a half further on, I bought the whole thing. I had the most famous promotional company that Scotland had ever seen.”
For many years Gilmour ran his business and his shows from Glasgow’s Albany Hotel and it was the venue for one of his fondest memories: Stevie Boyle winning the WBC International lightweight title in 1989 against Pedro Armando Gutierrez from Argentina.
“It was like a Busby Berkeley extravaganza!” jokes Gilmour.
“We had pipers, it was filmed by the BBC, we had to take the doors off to get everybody and everything in.
“It was fabulous.
“Also, we are the only private members’ club in the world that ever promoted a world championship fight: Paul Weir against Lindi Memani. I’m very proud of that.”
Gilmour insists he has no regrets looking back in the fight game but when a question about retirement comes his way, he adds: “We’ve never had a heavyweight champion. If we can get a British or Commonwealth heavyweight champion, that will be it, full stop.”
Well, he may just have one on his books. The unbeaten giant Highlander Gary Cornish, 25, will contest his 12th fight on Monday at the club, against the Hungarian Tamas Toth.
“I wanted Gary to be in action there. This is so that on the big nights he doesn’t freeze,” Gilmour explains.
And with that, he’s off to take calls about Monday’s show and dream about guiding a Scottish heavyweight to a major belt.
