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Historic night for Josh Taylor! By Anthony 'Duljoman' Andales PhilBoxing.com Mon, 24 May 2021  USA – Josh Taylor of Prestonpans, Scotland won the battle of the undefeated Saturday night in Las Vegas. He bested fellow world champion Jose Ramirez and cracked Ramirez’s O and turned it into 1. Taylor improved his record to 18-0-13 KOs while Ramirez stained his to 26-1-17KOs. Taylor snatched the WBC and WBO belts from Ramirez and added them to his IBF, WBA and Ring magazine titles. He is the lone undisputed champion of the 140-lb division right now in the biggest night of his boxing career. In my card the first two rounds belonged to Taylor, as he was very effective with his jab and straight lefts on the body. In the first two rounds Ramirez looked confused because Taylor was very quick and his boxing skills was more superior. But in the 3rd round, Ramirez was cutting the ring effectively and launched his own body attacks. Ramirez was showing Taylor that he was the stronger puncher. Ramirez hurt Taylor with his left hooks to the body and doubled it to the head. Taylor was very defensive and did not throw punches as he was busy covering and holding. In that 3rd round Ramirez outpunched Taylor 75 to 45. And in round four, more of the same, Ramirez continued where he left off attacking Taylor with his vicious powerful combinations, another round for Ramirez. In round five more of the same, Ramirez was convinced that he could dominate Taylor as he landed more body shots and lefts to the head. Now Ramirez looked very confident but it turned out to be a bad thing because he became complacent and he was not as careful of his attack. Here comes round six, Ramirez was aggressive and looking to inflict more damage on Taylor. Ramirez seemed to forget that Taylor was still very dangerous, a counter short left straight from Taylor dropped Ramirez for the first time, it is more of a flash knockdown but it was a clear 10-8 round for Taylor. In round seven, Ramirez was raring to bounce back. It was clear that the first knock down did not hurt him as he was still very game and went back to his furious form. Protect yourself at all times as referee told both fighters before start of the fight, they were clinching half way through round seven before referee Bayless tried to break them, Taylor launched a hard uppercut and down went Ramirez for the 2nd time. This time Ramirez looked hurt and groggy. He survived round seven but he was not the same entering round eight. Ramirez was a wounded warrior and lost the next three rounds in my card but he won the championship rounds. I scored 115-111 for Taylor. All three judges (Weisfeld, Moretti and Cheatham) had identical 114-112 scores for Taylor for a unanimous decision victory for the Brit. The first knockdown did not really hurt Ramirez, a perfect counter from Taylor and Ramirez could not do anything about it. It was just a perfect counter by Taylor. But the 2nd knockdown was the one that really damaged Ramirez, he was damaged goods after that, although he recovered around 11th round but it was a little too late. Ramirez did not protect himself. If he ever watched the replay, he can blame only himself for the 2nd knockdown, you cannot sleep even one second and you have to pay. The price was expensive, he lost all his belts. Hopefully the Avenal, California native Ramirez will bounce back from this hump cause he is very fun to watch. Josh Taylor joined an elite group of former middleweight champions Bernard Hopkins and Jermain Taylor, ex-junior welterweight champ Terence Crawford and former cruiserweight champ Oleksandr Usyk as the fifth unified champion in any weight division owning all 4 legitimate belts, The WBA, The IBF, The WBO and The WBA. A very rare feat. Oh!BeerTime! Lou Williams the former Clippers was suspended by NBA for couple of games when he disobeyed NBA’s Covid social distancing protocol, if his name is LeBron I bet he won’t get suspended, right Adam Silver Sir?... the knockout game between Lakers and Warriors was very competitive even though Warriors didn’t have lottery players in their roster, while overkill Lakers have 2 former #1 picks, it was a competitive game until referees started to fade away 360 reverse dunk… in crucial minutes of that game referees called TWO OFFENSIVE FOULS on Genius defender Draymond Green, it changes the course of the game and gave Lakers advantage… it wasn’t pathetic but Lakers always get the favorable calls and LeBron was not SUSPENDED violating COVID protocols but pawn players do… if I have to pick upsets on this playoffs, I will pick Atlanta hawks over Knicks, Heat over Bucks for the East… and only Trailblazers over Nuggets for the West… and bold prediction Hawks will be on the Eastern finals, this team is the dark horse, they have 2 big-time frontcourts Capela and John Collins and they have pure real genuine shooters Trae Young, Bogdanovic and Huerter plus Gallinari and Lou Will, not to mention they have a former coach of the year the former Seattle Supersonics sharp shooter Nate McMillan… Atlanta Hawks will make a big noise, am telling you!... Manny Pacquiao vs Errol Spence, if Manny was at least 10 yrs younger this fight will still be very dangerous, how much more today… these are Manny’s victims Oscar, Cotto, Margarito, Barrera, Morales, Hatton, *Marquez, etc… what that tells me??? Only Marquez is a maybe 50% boxer on this list, most of them they are brawlers and that's when Manny is genius of when his opponent is a brawler… Errol Spence is young and he has a boxer in his DNA, on top of that Spence Jr. knocked out 21 of his 27 opponents, meaning he’s like 80% knockout ratio, in other words Spence Jr can box and brawl at the same time, that’s why it was an easy win for him against elites Mikey Garcia, Danny Garcia… am not trying to scare you people am just putting down some data and facts… but I have “but” to tell you guys, there is a light at the end of the tunnel… our beloved Manny Pac is a unique, a phenomenal specimen, one of a kind, one in a million to be specific… he is shorter, he is older, he is way beyond his prime… if anybody can win a fight like this, a fight where all the odds are against you, then I would say it would be MannyPac… my quick whys, Manny still have knockout one punch power, Manny is disciplined and he always show up in good shape, Manny is an awkward fighter, still very unpredictable and Manny is very smart we don’t have to worry if he can handle whatever situation on fight time itself… but my super why, why many has a chance is, Spence Jr didn’t looked too sharp against Shawn Porter, some experts even said Porter won that fight… now I'm telling you guys our Manny Pac is not Shawn Porter, our Manny Pac is way stronger and better than Porter even at this stage of his career… as my good friend one of the best champion Philippines ever produced Geronimo Penalosa said, he is predicting a late round KO victory for Manny, this is what I can say, I won’t be surprise at all… are we very lucky that in our lifetime we’ve seen Michael Jordan, Michael Phelps, Usain Bolt and Manny Pacquiao? Tell me!!!! Kakakakakakakaka KUMBATEA!!! Shout out to my CIT-ME BATCHMATES DR. REY BUOT (SUMMA CUM LAUDE), ENGR. JERRY PINILI (FALCON JET) and ENGR. RONNIE GO (HYUNDAI LEAD-DESIGN ENGR)… they are philboxing enthusiasts. Click here to view a list of other articles written by Anthony 'Duljoman' Andales.  |
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