Josh Taylor on Jose Ramirez's performance: 'I wasn’t impressed'
The junior welterweight fight between Josh Taylor and Jose Ramirez for all four major titles looms. And it might not be as difficult for Taylor as he might have thought, the Scot implied.
Taylor told talkSPORT that he wasn’t impressed with Ramirez’s performance against Viktor Postol on Aug. 29 in Las Vegas. Ramirez retained his belts but had to rally to do so, 116-112, 115-113 and 114-114.
“I actually scored the fight a draw myself,” Taylor said. “… “I thought Postol ran away with the early rounds. First half of the fight, he made Ramirez look very ordinary and slow. I saw lots of holes that I definitely will expose if or when we meet.
“I believe I will expose him. I wasn’t impressed with what I saw at all.”
Taylor (16-0, 12 KOs) defeated Postol by a wider decision in 2018, 117-110, 118-110 and 119-108, but it wasn’t an easy fight.
“I think it was a good performance considering,” he said of his own performance. “That was my first fight at world level. It was only my 13th fight as well. There was a lot of pressure riding on me, I was putting a lot of pressure on myself because I had a lot of proving to do.
“So I believe if I had that fight again, I’d put on an even more dominant performance and blow him away. I think makes my victory look a little bit better. I thought he was quite unlucky not to get the nod.”
Taylor and Ramirez (26-0, 17 KOs) are expected to meet before the end of the year if Taylor beats mandatory challenger Apinun Khongsong on Sept. 26.