![]() Rodriguez (11-1-1, 10 KO) just never really asserted himself here, and while you could probably argue a win for him on a five rounds to three score, his limitations were again exposed by a solid boxer who knows his way around the ring. In the main card opener, Kenneth Sims Jr scored a big upset over previously unbeaten prospect Elvis Rodriguez, who became a “Bubble” favorite last year but has had his bubble burst in his last two outings, this one to a much bigger degree than having some struggles looking good last time out. He lost, and clearly, but he wasn’t dominated or beaten up or anything. He took it on short notice and went the full 10 without any real problems. Lundy can leave this one with his head held up. But if you don’t make him fight really hard, he won’t. If you press him - as Ivan Baranchyk did in last year’s Fight of the Year - he can respond well and more than hold his own. Zepeda just doesn’t lead the dance well, not so much because he’s a strict counter-puncher or anything, but because he seems to lack that next-gear mentality where he really takes over and bosses fights. When he fought Jose Ramirez, Zepeda’s biggest problem was arguably himself, as he lost a majority decision.Īndre Ward touched on some of this, and others have said it before, too. Last year, he let Kendo Castaneda hang around. Zepeda, 31, has had other nights like this. Zepeda (34-2, 26 KO) won as everyone expected he would, but he underwhelmed against the 37-year-old Lundy (31-9-1, 14 KO), whose craftiness and veteran savvy kept him hanging around even though he was never a serious threat to actually win. There really isn’t a ton to say about this fight, so we’ll keep this section brief. Who took it? #RamirezTaylor decision on tap on ESPN /Itxi6dxuhR- Top Rank Boxing Jose Zepeda UD-10 Hank Lundy But we win some, and we can’t win ‘em all.” But from what people are telling me, the second knockdown was kind of on a break or something, but I’ll have to go back and see it. You don’t see (undisputed champions) often,” Ramirez’s trainer Robert Garcia said. ![]() Two knockdowns and I won most of the rounds, and they scored it 114-112, which is a bit too close for my liking.” “I wasn’t too happy with the selection of the judges, but I wasn’t going to moan because I was so confident in winning this fight anyway. “I thought the score cards were a little bit tight, I thought they were well wider than that,” he said. Taylor also thought that the scoring as a little closer than it should have been. ![]() He wished me all the best and blessed me and my family. I wish him all the best in the future.”Īs for what the two said to one another after it was all over, Taylor told ESPN’s Bernardo Osuna, “He accepted my apology for the way I was acting, and we’re all good. I’ve got nothing but love and respect for Ramirez, I think he was a great champion, a great ambassador for the sport. We played the games up until this week to purely get in his head. “We said all week in the build-up we were going to use his aggression against him. This week was no disrespect, it was all just part of the mind games to get inside his head, to make him more eager to jump in at me, to use his aggression against him,” Taylor said. There clearly was some real animosity between the two, at least from Ramirez’s side, but they also embraced after the fight, and Taylor said his entire approach during fight week was just about mentally rattling Ramirez. It was a damn good fight, with some particularly choice rounds of intensity in the first half. He wasn’t right for a couple rounds after that, but Taylor also wasn’t able to finish him off, either, and Ramirez made a hard stand down the stretch, too you could even argue Taylor may have coasted a bit too much, feeling his lead was wider than the judges had it. ![]() But Ramirez did dig in, and had some good success going to the body, making the fight plenty competitive.īut he was dropped early in the sixth, and managed to survive that round, and then got dropped hard late in the seventh. Taylor, 30, got off to a solid start, and it was clear early that his speed and movement would be able to give Ramirez (26-1, 17 KO) serious problems. Bad Left Hook unofficially scored the fight a bit wider for Taylor, at 116-110. Without at least one of them, this fight would have been a hugely controversial draw, but they were both good knockdowns, hard and real. Taylor (18-0, 13 KO) won on scores of 114-112 across the board, with knockdowns in the sixth and seventh rounds ultimately pushing him over the top. Josh Taylor joined an elite group of undisputed champions in boxing’s four-belt era, beating Jose Ramirez by decision to fully unify the 140 lb division tonight in Las Vegas. ![]()
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