The WBC has just received a letter from Josh Taylor’s attorney in which he confirms Taylor’s decision to relinquish the WBC super lightweight championship rather than fight mandatory challenger Jose “Chon” Zepeda.
The organization announced that they regret having lost so much time and having mandatory contender Jose Zepeda frozen as well as other fighters in the division. Nevertheless, they wish Josh Taylor success in his future inside and outside the ring.
The WBC has now ordered a rematch between Jose Zepeda and Jose Ramirez for the vacant WBC super lightweight title.
Taylor, who previously vacated the WBA title, still holds the IBF and WBO 140lb belts.
JT showing his cowardness LOL
Yep, reminds me of canelo giving up the belt so he didn’t have to face GGG in his prime.
Exactly he was sh… his pants of a prime GGG! Clenbutelo fans are disliking your comment! Truth hurts.
By the time ggg was in his prime canelo was too green
HAHAHA, that’s the best one i heard yet.
Canelo already had damn near 50 fights and was 26 yrs old!
Too green, GTFOH. Cinnamon was TOO YELLOW so he threw the belt in the trash.
Canelo had already won the middleweight title, then basically called GGG out saying he was interested in a fight with him and he was afraid of no man.
But reality set in and Canelo started having flash backs of that a$$ whooping GGG gave him in a sparring session previously and that’s why he threw his middleweight belts in the trash that he won from Cotto. And then he went up to 168 and fought chavez after his excuse for ducking GGG was that he wasn’t a true middleweight.
There’s no defending his ducking yellow @$$.
Not many out here that like to remember those days. LOL!!!
I’m presuming he’s going to fight Catterall and then be done with the division. If that’s the case then I have no problem with this. Zepeda deserves his shot, he’ll get it, but Catterall definitely deserves a rematch and that’s probably a big money fight now.
Shouldn’t have a title to vacate after the Catterall fight
Hopefully because i’m tired of the so called champions like Canelo who are only chasing the weakest belt holders or the ones who are way past their primes..
You must be smoking crack.
Bro, if your calling one of them out call them all out…Demetrius Andrade , Jermall Charlo , GGG , Caleb Plant and difference between all of them is Canelo is actually fighting though be it not the strongest of fighters but Bivol was never push over …and who has Jermall Charlo and Boo Boo fought whoooooooooo??? who????? Why do they even deserve to fight Canelo ? Fight the next best, then in the division …… stop chasing legacy and make your legacy such as the route David Benavidez is proclaiming and so far has kept to his word but still has alot of work to go because of his past mistakes. Jamie Munguia is one I believe is rather weak paper champion but still has time to prove that he is not by first getting new manager and trainer. fights that should happen after Canelo vs GGG.
1. Jermall Charlo vs Demetrius Andrade/David Benavidez
2. David Benavidez/Billy Joe Saunders vs Caleb Plant
3. Jermell Charlo vs Sebastian Fundora/or Tim Tszyu
4. Jaime Munguia vs Chris Eurbank/ or Daniel Jacobs
im just wondering why hes having so much trouble compred to the other undisputed champions
Total horse shit here. Catterall is in fact the uncrowned real champion who was blatantly burned and screwed over by paid off incompetent judges. This clown fake champion should have handed his belts over to Catterall simple as that.
This clown should have been stripped of all the belts and let the other guys fight for them, keeping the 140 division relevant, interesting. Since he got all the belts, the division has been in obscurity, sandwiched with a huge black eye wth the atrocious decision in his fight against Catteral.
I’m ok with him fighting Catterall; shouldn’t be stripped for it though. I think Zepeda would’ve whipped him and I like Zepeda over Ramirez this time
Time to move up to 147.
Very disapointed in Taylor. Zepeda would have been a tough test for him, though Ponce also be. At the same time, he did at one time have 4 different number one contenders. Then of course it went down to 3. But if these so called boxing organizations would work together, for example, he fights one of the number one contenders, and the two other ones, maybe the top would be battling each other for the next right to face the champ, then a lot of these problems could be resolved. But they won’t be.
Typical brit ,holding the titles hostage…there should be a time limit on when you can vacate!
Typical brit? Name one other Brit in history that has held four belts hostage at one time without facing the best in his division. You can’t, because it doesn’t exist. Taylor already cleaned out the 140 that mattered and vacated 2 titles so that other fighters could fight for them. He can’t make the weight anymore so he needs to vacate and move up. That is what he is doing, so what’s your problem? Racist much?
British is not a race.
But his nationality is not why you are attacking him, and you know that. So do I, and that’s why I commented on it.
Who cares
When is the WBC – Mauricio Sulaiman – understand that the Champion makes the belt? Josh Taylor is the real Champion in the super lightweight division.
That’s why they created the Franchise belt.
It’s tough to hold all 4 belts. This means that you have to be in peak fighting form 4 times per year at least. That’s training all year long and can only be done by a select few.
He doesn’t need all the sanctioning fees. The public knows that he’s the division’s champ. Let the others fight for the belts, then cash in once a year in a big fight. Everyone wins.