As per prior communications and with the agreement which all four presidents (WBC-WBO-IBF-WBA) confirmed in a meeting held in Puerto Rico, the WBC mandatory defense is next, followed by the IBF. The WBC is hereby advising of the beginning of the free negotiations period for Josh Taylor´s mandatory title defense versus Jose Zepeda. If no agreement is reached, the WBC will conduct a purse bid on Tuesday, May 24th, 2022.
This is interesting because the WBA already held a purse bid for Taylor to fight Alberto Puello. That auction was won by TGB Promotions with a bid of $200,000. They are planning to stage Taylor-Puello July 16 in Las Vegas. The camps have until May 12 to send the signed contracts, and the fight has to take place between June 6 and July 21.
There is no way in the world Josh Taylor is going to fight Alberto Puello for $150k in Vegas or anywhere else. Taylor – Zepeda should be relatively easy to make given that they both kinda/sorta work with Top Rank and I think it would be a pretty good fight. If Taylor truly is suffering at the weight, Chon could pull the upset, I’m still picking Taylor though.
Instead of that miserable purse bid, I think Taylor will vacate the belts and fight at 147. He wouldn’t be a match for Crawford if this fight is made
I got Chon Zepeda by KO, Taylor looked horrible his las fight!
Taylor’s best course of action is to starve himself for awhile longer until Spence moves up and there are vacant tiles to fight for
What about if the guys to face for those vacant titles are Jaron Ennis or Vergil Ortiz?