Taylor, on top of the world, juniorwelterweightchampion.
It has just concluded an extraordinary match, where you could write an encyclopedic volume on boxing. Taylor won, won a very very tactical match,champion WBA, WBC, IBF, WBO.
In the first round is the Englishman who has the better of Ramirez, who struggles to find the distance, the same in the second round, Josh brings the shots, moves, but Jose begins to take distance by bringing some good shots. In the third round, happens what we hoped (which should have happened at the tactical level to tip the scales on the side of Ramirez) cut the road, brought the series and made a job (especially to the body) that in addition to the shots has weakened the mind of the Scot. The same thing, but less obvious happened in the fourth round, but here an episode happens, the American to defend himself makes a turn on himself and takes a full shot to the back of the head, he would have taken it in the face … a little in our opinion here the match has changed.
In the fifth one something really changes; Josh takes back the reins, fast movements, great chin (we wondered if he had any, yes!!! he is granitic, he took some hard blows, he felt them, but he didn’t hit a nail, unbelievable), and, moreover, he puts his series, based on a killer first blow. The sixth changes the match, Ramirez brings a right jab going forward with the body, and with the head, receives a deadly left hook (from the anthology of boxing), because Josh dodges the right, there are only a few seconds to the end, and after the count stoically resists, ends the recovery, spoiled by another shot behind the neck when the fighters were close, (always defend), Taylor in addition to being good and athletic is smart, all the qualities of a champion. Seventh round, also here Taylor wins by two points, Jose goes down again, while Taylor manages working with blows and movements the round, in a phase where the two are close and they hit each other at short distance, Jose, gives up the hands of the Englishman who puts an uppercut and knocks him down (this was really a very serious mistake by the American and Josh, like a cat, took advantage of it, a textbook blow, at the same time a very expensive ingenuity for Jose. From the eighth to the tenth was clear the superiority of Taylor, but as soon as he got distracted he took some shots that reminded him that Ramirez is a champion, and that when you play with a mouse like that you risk; the last two rounds go to Ramirez, who should have won by knockout, but it was not so. Great Josh today enters the hall of fame, there are very few fighters (six I think), who unified the belts, and he has only eighteen pro fights, and 30 years. Honor to this super champion.
What made the difference: highlighting Taylor’s class and his ability to cash in, at the third he went back to the corner knowing that he had never lost a round, in all his boxing career like that, where Ramirez was really superior, so was the fourth but by the fifth, we can say that accomplices “Jose’s oversights” Taylor’s head is back in his place and he understood that he could win on the level of conviction, added to his athletic and physical qualities. Really a super tactical match, with moments of fantastic exchanges, but never exasperated to the last blow, both aware of the power of the opponentem really nice tactics. Honor to the champion of champions Josh Taylor surgical, fast dynamic, checkerboard, we repeat bad mistakes of Jose, which certainly attribute to a level of amateurism that in America goes on professinismo, but there just a moment and change the face of the match, and when fighting champions know that everything can fly away in an instant, if you make a mistake, that you can not commit at certain levels.
Congratulations to the show. Great Taylor, great because he came out of a third round, where he was dominated by the great, taking back what is now rightfully his, and we are a little sorry for Jose who has shown in the ring that he is lacking in that cunning that also characterizes a champion.
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