In a super lightweight world title unification and World Boxing Super Series final, IBF champion Josh Taylor (16-0, 12 KOs) seized the WBA belt of Regis Prograis (24-1, 20 KOs) by twelve round majority decision on Saturday night at The O2 Arena in London.
Very close, gritty contest. Taylor landed the more eye-catching shots, especially over the second half of the fight. In the end, scores were 114-114, 115-113, 117-112.
After the fight, WBA/IBF unified champ Taylor called out WBC/WBO unified champ Jose Ramirez to fight for the undisputed title. “Jose Ramirez, where you at? Let’s do it,” Taylor said.
Prograis was classy in defeat, saying “It was a close fight, the better man won tonight so it’s cool.”
This is definetly fight of the year candidate.
Reggie was simply to small.Great win by Taylor.
A good fight. Not fight of the year. Come on dude. Not even close.
What a flight!
What a fight!
What a fight!
What a fight!
WHAT A MOTHERLOVING FITH!
That is what I love about boxing!
Career defining fight for for both fighters!
Both are champions BOTH are WARRIORS!
Well said, Juan Valdez.
Great fight Josh Taylor well deserved I had it 115-113 for Josh congratulations 114-114 don’t know what was that judge looking at..Jesus!!!no your not ready for Ramirez or Regis
I had it 116-112 Taylor. He was streaking in the middle rounds from Rd 5 unto 10 before Regis caught up to him in the last two rounds. Taylor, a beautiful, classy boxer who reminds me of Jim Watt, Ken Buchanan, Kalzaghe, and Walter McGowan. One of today’s best for sure.
interesting you mentioned Watt, Buchanan and McGowan. As a native Scot in Boulder, Co., they were my heroes.
Carlos, you might want to re-write that. It was Regis who just lost to Josh. Of course, Josh is ready for Regis. He just beat his ass.
Carlos: “that judge” had it one round different than your card, lol.
Regis is all talk, he couldnt back up his words. Loser!!!
Jake76, now you are being very rude and childish. Regis did an excellent job. Superb. Against a superb athlete. You would probably lay down to a well-conditioned 9 year old. A well conditioned 9 year old girl that is.
Come on mate, that’s ridiculous talk. I’m glad that Taylor won, but it was a really close and tough match. Regis fought a great fight.
I watched it and I’m thinking, I’d hate to be a judge, but I couldn’t pick a winner from what I saw and 114 to 114 sounds right to me.
Kudos to both Josh & Prograis. I did feel that Prograis was very insincere, which I did not like. However, despite his pride being hurt, he did his best to suck up the loss. For that, I commend him.
Great fight, as we’ve heard before, a good ‘big one’ beats a good little one. Thought Taylor just had a touch more in every department, more speed, better jab and more spite in his punches. Close fight, but most definitely the right decision. Huge respect to Prograis, I thought he might be another Lacy, he fought well and showed huge class in defeat. Hope Taylor unifies against Ramirez and then moves up to welter.
First rate fight. Sometimes they fought at a distance, sometimes on the inside. Their punching power was pretty equal. I had it 7/ 5 for Taylor.
Taylor’s style is made for Ramirez. Ramirez loves fighting in the inside, Taylor will get stopped in that fight.
Don’t think so. Regardless, I’d love to see that fight, after a long rest for Taylor, he deserves it.
I agreed with you I said he’s not ready for Ramirez
My fight with Jose Luis Castillo, Efren Hinojosa SHould have BEEN FIGHT OF THE YEAR.
Dang! I didnt see it get! Cant wait to get home and watch it!
Good fight. Taylor was more active in the middle rounds and Regis wasn’t letting his hands go enough. Prograis won the last two rounds but it wasn’t enough to close the gap. Regis needs to mix in his body and head movement with punching. Taylor was letting his hands go much more freely and that was the difference. The right man won the decision.
I thought Regis said he couldn’t be beat? I love it when cocky ges beat…Doesn’t matter which cocky to me.
Keith Thurman 🙂 LOL, never underestimate your opponent!
Thats because your Beta and threatened by men with confidence.
. After this great win, a fight against Ramirez is the only worthy fight left for him .Best days for Taylor are ahead as a welterweight. Brook and Erroll Spence are considered big welterweights, but Taylor is slightly bigger than both of them. Really hard dude to deal with.
Congrats to Josh whom I thought did enough to earn this victory. Props to Prograis for being a true professional in defeat and bring classy. Ramirez and Taylor are both 5’10” so that will be a great scrap!!! Can’t wait
Lol, at all these asshats that said Prograis was going to knock out Taylor. The fight was a bit nipntuck but I thought the Scotsman legitimately ran away with it in the late rounds. Prograis is very athletic and a physical specimen but he’s not that smart of a fighter. He’s also smaller than the Scotsman and I think that was the reason why he lost narrowly. A rematch would be great, but I think Taylor is going to move up to 147 and seek a big money fight.
This is what boxing is all about! BRAVO!!!
One more big mouth down
A big mouth who couldnt back up his words
Both seem like really good fighters and gave a good showing of themselves. Prograis looked to be a big green in comparison but he takes punches pretty well. I never knew who the other dude was till this fight. Good boxer!
Both guys are class acts.. I was really impressed with the way prograis was so humble.. It made him look stronger and even the fans who boo’d him in England cheered him after. He’s a class act.. And the future is his.
Entertaining scrap. Regis took a beating in my opinion, and never really adjusted his game plan. Regis showed his mettle in the last round. Truly no quit in that guy, but he certainly lost. Hats off to both. Would love to see a rematch.
Two Quality champions. Bring Taylor over for some US exposure Pronto!