A counter left, after slipping a right hand, dropped the California boxer leaning in. Ref Kenny Bayless warned Josh Taylor after the round, but he was happy with the 10-8 round. To the sixth–we saw Ramirez hit the deck. His eyes shone, indicating his confidence, but he didn't get reckless, because he sensed a turning of the tide, he stayed composed in the fifth. The rights to the gut, they were sneaky, and effective for Ramirez. This was by now a full on fight, and Josh Taylor wasn't that measured mover that he started out to be. In the fourth, Ramirez was like a pitbull late, to steal away the round. Looked like Ramirez buzzed Taylor, maybe more than once, in that round. He had more luck in the third, Taylor wasn't moving as much, and he didn't look as in control of the pace as he had previously. Ramirez had some luck late in round two, after spending the first two thirds finding Josh Taylor hard to find. A Ramirez right to the body landed clean. Ramirez got hit with a sharp left and shook his head, naw, you didn't bother me. The lefty Josh Taylor started well, getting the distance he wanted. Josh Taylor, age 30, entered with a 17-0 mark, and the IBF and WBA straps, while Ramirez, age 26, held a 26-0 mark and the WBO and WBC belts. Garcia knew the fight would be close, because of the knockdowns, he said. Replay showed that the ref had his hands up, and it didn't look on replay like it was a break situation. Robert Garcia, trainer to Jose Ramirez, said after he wanted to watch the fight, he heard some saying the second knockdown came off a break. He said they spent hours drilling on how to tie up on the ropes, that was one of the things they knew they would need to do correctly. Trainer Ben Davison told Joe Tessitore after that his guy did so well staying composed. “There's a new warrior king, and he's from Scotland,” Taylor stated. He apologized to Ramirez in the ring after the match, he said. Also, he said he respects the hell out of Ramirez, and that he was acting up this week just to try and get in his head. Josh Taylor post-fight told Bernardo Osuna that he thought he won much more widely than the judges said. Taylor was the better man, zero doubt, on this night, and he can boast he is THE MAN at junior welterweight. The judges had it 114-112, times three, but it was wider than that, a good deal wider, more along the lines of 8-3-1 for Josh Taylor, with two extra points for knockdowns, on my card. The Scot scored knockdowns in round six and round seven, and Ramirez simply wasn't able to get a bead on Taylor long enough to hurt him, or take something out of him and try to drown him late. Jonathan Almacen, junior flyweights, Johannesburg, South Africa.It wasn't the war that was predicted by many, because Josh Taylor had too many weapons and a superiority in skills at the Las Vegas Virgin Hotel on Saturday night, against Jose Ramirez. Hironori Miyake, junior featherweights, Osaka, Japan Hekkie Budler vs. Lukasz Rozanski, heavyweights, Lomza, Poland Tomoki Kameda vs. Carlos Molina, middleweights, Coventry, England (Channel 5 in U.K.) Artur Szpilka vs. Armando Torres, junior flyweights, Tampa, Fla. Lundy (31-8-1, 14 KOs) has won two consecutive fights since losing back-to-back to Zaur Abdullaev and Avery Sparrow.Īlso fighting this weekend: May 21 – Jonathan Gonzalez vs. The fighters went down a combined eight times before Zepeda (33-2, 26 KOs) scored a fifth-round knockout. Also on the card, Zepeda, who faces Hank Lundy, is coming off the 2020 Fight of the Year against Baranchyk. Ramirez looked so-so against Postol, although he had been out of the ring for 13 months. Two of his defenses have come by majority decision, against Jose Zepeda in February 2019 and against Postol last August. He has successfully defended four times and added a second title by stopping Maurice Hooker in six rounds in July 2019. Ramirez, also a complete fighter, won his first belt by defeating Amir Imam by a unanimous decision in March 2018. Taylor also has victories over Miguel Vazquez, Viktor Postol, Ryan Martin and Ivan Baranchyk (to win his first world title). He successfully defended once 11 months later in the same town, stopping Apinun Khongsong in the first round. Taylor, a superb boxer-puncher from Scotland, has the most-significant victory of the two: He defeated previously unbeaten Regis Prograis by a majority decision to unify two titles in October 2019 in London. Taylor and Ramirez, both of whom are former Olympians, undefeated as professionals and hold two of the four major titles, will fight to determine the No. Background: It doesn’t get much better than this.Hank Lundy, junior welterweights Elvis Rodriguez vs. Pound-for-pound ranking: Taylor, Honorable Mention.At stake: Taylor’s WBC and WBO, and Ramirez’s IBF and WBA titles.
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