- Ramírez meets Taylor with all four major title belts at stake
- Taylor and Ramírez collide with boxing history on the line
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We’ve just witnessed a major upset on the undercard. Blue-chip junior welterweight prospect Elvis Rodriguez, widely hailed as one of boxing’s most promising rising stars, has just suffered his first professional defeat by majority decision to Kenneth Sims Jr. The judges’ scores were 78-74 (twice) and 76-76.
The heavy-handed Rodriguez, who went off as a minus-2500 favorite, was clearly outboxed over eight rounds in a fight that Sims badly needed to rejuvenate a once-promising career. Mission accomplished.
Hello and welcome to Las Vegas for tonight’s showdown between José Ramírez and Josh Taylor for the unified junior welterweight championship. This one needs no salesmanship, misdirection or promotional razzle-dazzle. We’ve got two undefeated fighters with crowd-friendly styles, in their primes, at their best weight, with all four major title belts on the line. Ramírez owns the WBC and WBO titles, while Taylor holds the WBA and IBF straps. At the end of the night, one of them will the undisputed champion at 140lbs. What more could you possibly ask for?
If you answered bad blood, well, there’s that, too! Shortly after both fighters made weight at yesterday’s weigh-in and performed the traditional staredown for the cameras, Taylor tracked down Ramírez off stage and shoved him near the elevator well, kicking off a fracas between the camps.
The confrontation didn’t stop on the stage.
Things got heated again between @RAMIREZBOXING & @JoshTaylorBoxer at the elevators following the weigh-in.#RamirezTaylor | SATURDAY | ESPN - 8pm ET pic.twitter.com/qrskluVdbV
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