Josh Taylor W12 Jose Ramirez ... In Las Vegas on Saturday, Scotland's Josh Taylor became a four-belt undisputed world champion in the junior welterweight division, defeating Jose Carlos Ramirez in an exciting bout. Taylor dropped Ramirez in rounds six and seven and then staved off the aggresive Ramirez for a unanimous decision win. All three judges scored it 114-112 for Taylor. Taylor knocked Ramirez down in round six with a left to the jaw. The second knockdown, a round later, was a picturesque uppercut as Taylor stepped back from a break. The uppercut was not as damaging as Canelo Alvarez's finishing blow against Billy Joe Saunders, but it was right behind recent fight enders by Alvarez, Gervonta Davis and Alexander Povetkin as the best of the past year.

 

Taylor is now 18-2 including the World Series of Boxing, although most sources simply list him as 18-0. Ramirez is Taylor’s fifth consecutive undefeated opponent. Ramirez falls to 26-1. 

 

With the. win, Taylor adds Ramirez's WBO and WBC to the IBF and WBA versions he already held. Since 1990, only six male boxers have held all four major title belts: Bernard Hopkins, Jermain Taylor, Oleksandr Usyk, Terence Crawford, Teofimo Lopez and now Taylor.