"Tales from the Ring: Celebrating Scotland’s Boxing Heritage" contains a mixture of archive of material and oral histories donated by some of Scotland's best-ever fighters and their families.

The exhibition, funded following an award of £9,900 ($12,900/€11,700) from The National Lottery Heritage Fund, is due to remain open to the public until March 26.

The archive will be housed permanently at the University of Stirling.

McTaggart won 610 out of 634 amateur contests and remains the only Scottish boxer to win an Olympic gold medal.

The lightweight fighter twice returned to the Olympic arena, winning a bronze medal in Rome in 1960.

Other achievements included a gold medal at the 1958 Commonwealth Games in Cardiff and silver at the 1962 event in Perth in Australia. 

McTaggart also won a gold medal at the European Amateur Championships in Belgrade in 1961 and was a five-time winner of the Amateur Boxing Association Championship.

The opening of the archive will also mark the launch of a new set of boxing reminiscence cards by the Sporting Memories Foundation Scotland, which aims to use sport to help people tackle dementia, depression and loneliness. 

"We are delighted to be opening this exhibition to the public and are grateful to The National Lottery Heritage Fund for their support." Karl Magee, the archivist at the University of Stirling, said. 

"The University of Stirling Archives holds one of the largest collections of sporting archives in the country, including the Commonwealth Games Scotland Archive, and this new project continues our commitment to supporting Scotland’s sporting heritage."