THE weekend death of British boxer Scott Westgarth has led to renewed calls for the sport to be banned.

Westgarth was 31 when he died in the early hours of Sunday morning, having fallen ill after outpointing Dec Spelman in Doncaster on Saturday evening.

His death represents the third in British boxing in five years and follows high-profile incidents in which the lives of Nick Blackwell and Eduard Gutknecht were threatened following their respective defeats by Chris Eubank Jr and George Groves.