malbaker86
Gators
Rigos was always mid to me. Even before Taylor beat em, he never impressed me
5/22 ESPN & ESPN+: Josh Taylor vs Jose Ramirez (WBA/WBC/IBF/WBO Super Lightweight Championship)
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Rigos was always mid to me. Even before Taylor beat em, he never impressed me
Lmao
Robert transformed Maidana but look what Maidana was when he got him, at 140 he couldn't even beat Amir Khan, he over achieved with Robert, and was a different fighter, but his talent level was high to begin with, Mikey is the only elite boxer he had and that's because he trained him from scratch
this was the unofficial WBSS 140 final..140 leveled up so much...we got a lot of great boxing out of that division in the past 2.5 years
malbaker86
Gators
NZA
LOL
been a couple years together, i expect bad habits to be worked on for a guy on this level.
Taylor-Ramirez Drew Peak Audience Of 1,673,000 On ESPN; Averaged 1,305,000 Viewers
BY KEITH IDEC
Published Tue May 25, 2021, 02:40 PM EDT
Josh Taylor’s victory over Jose Ramirez drew ESPN’s highest viewership for a boxing main event in five months.
Nielsen Media Research released numbers Tuesday that showed Taylor-Ramirez was watched by an average of 1,305,000 viewers. A peak audience of 1,673,000 tuned in toward the end of their 12-round, 140-pound title unification fight.
The average viewership was ESPN’s highest for a boxing main event since December 12, when former WBO featherweight champion Shakur Stevenson’s 10-round, unanimous-decision victory over Toka Kahn Clary was watched by an average audience of 1,281,000.
ESPN’s entire two-hour, 52-minute boxing broadcast averaged 995,000 viewers Saturday night from The Theater at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas.
Scotland’s Taylor (18-0, 13 KOs) knocked Ramirez to the canvas twice, once apiece in the sixth and seventh rounds, on his way to narrowly winning a unanimous decision. Ramirez recovered, rallied in the championship rounds and made their fight very close on the scorecards.
Those two knockdowns accounted for the difference on all three scorecards. Judges Tim Cheatham, Dave Moretti and Steve Weisfeld scored Taylor the winner by the same slim margin, 114-112.
The 30-year-old Taylor retained his IBF and WBA belts, won the WBC and WBO crowns from Ramirez and became just the fifth fully unified champion in any division during boxing’s four-belt era. The 28-year-old Ramirez (26-1, 17 KOs), of Avenal, California, lost for the first time since the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
ESPN’s co-feature Saturday night, Jose Zepeda-Hanky Lundy, drew an average of 854,000 viewers.
Zepeda (34-2, 26 KOs, 2 NC), a southpaw from La Puente, California, defeated Philadelphia’s Lundy (31-9-1, 14 KOs) by unanimous decision in a mundane, 10-round junior welterweight fight. Zepeda out-pointed Lundy by the same margin, 98-92, on each scorecard.
The opener of ESPN’s three-bout broadcast, Kenneth Sims Jr.’s upset of Elvis Rodriguez, attracted an average of 927,000 viewers.
Chicago’s Sims (16-2-1, 5 KOs) beat the Dominican Republic’s Rodriguez (11-1-1, 10 KOs) by majority decision in an eight-rounder Rodriguez was consistently listed as a 25-1 favorite to win. Judge Chris Migliore scored their junior welterweight bout a draw (76-76), but he was overruled by judges Eric Cheek (78-74) and Max De Luca (78-74), both of whom scored six of the eight rounds for Sims.
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Good numbers for ESPN.