Josh Taylor robbed of a stoppage win by Kenny Bayless' long counts

[W1LL]

Ridiculous, clear cheating by the American referee. Josh Taylor clearly robbed of a decisive, stoppage win in the fight last night. Taylor showed himself to be a class above Jose Ramirez, and anywhere else in the world the fight would have ended early. Anybody crying about Ramirez winning, or Josh not being a clear winner, are simply deluded.

[W1LL]

[BLASTER1]

I agree.
I had Taylor winning by K/O mid rounds.
I swear their is a huge conspiracy so that BLASTER1 didn't get the points for the 2021 pikem.
Maybe its cause I'm white. lol.
Seriously though both k/ds seemed like he got plenty of time to recover.
Much like Deontay against Ortiz . Wilder was hurt but the money side got more time.
Call it Karma but the same thing happens with Fury.
Fury gets knocked out but gets alot of extra time to recover so obviously their is a favourite bias going on but all us fans know this already.

[KP1]

Score shoulda been closer to 116-110, wasn’t that close.

[-Kev-]

Actually Bayless messed up on both counts. What he did, or should I say didn’t do, benefitted Taylor more than Ramirez.

I had no dog in this fight, I like both fighters. But I was screaming at the tv when Taylor was breathing on Bayless after both kd’s. The second kd, he got so close to Bayless, even my clueless-about-boxing wife even pointed out and asked if Taylor can do that.

Taylor, being dumb or full of adrenaline, or both, decided to not go to the neutral corner in both kd’s. A ref isn’t supposed to count if the fighter is not in a neutral corner. Bayless did not catch this immediately. In the second one, he caught Taylor standing right behind him ready to go after Ramirez and stopped counting, per pro boxing rules, and told Taylor to back off.

So yeah, Taylor actually benefitted from Bayless not seeing him not go to the neutral corner.

”(6) When a boxer is knocked down, the referee shall direct the opponent to move to the farthest neutral corner of the ring. If the opponent leaves the neutral corner, the referee shall interrupt the count and will not resume the count until the opponent returns to the neutral corner.”

Bayless actually let Taylor slide both times.

[TJ highway]

LOL! The long count! Jack Dempsey vs Gene Tunney - The Long Count (1927).

Guys are being silly tonight!

Jack Dempsey vs Gene Tunney first million dollar payday (for Tunney). What is that today like 15.3 million?

Blame Taylor for the long count, follow instructions.

[joesaiditstrue]

if that was Taylor wobbling around after the 2ND KD, Bayliss would've stopped the fight right there, you can't convince me otherwise, give Ramirez props for not getting stopped

[W1LL]

if that was Taylor wobbling around after the 2ND KD, Bayliss would've stopped the fight right there, you can't convince me otherwise, give Ramirez props for not getting stopped

By the laws of Boxing, Ramirez did get stopped. If justice was served, he would have lost by count out last night. But he got a 20-second count for some unknown reason.

[Sid-Knee]

Yeah, just another example in a long line of disgusting corruption. But is anyone really surprised at this point?

Congratulations to Taylor for coming through that and prevailing.

[TJ highway]

Corruption my arse if he would have walked to a neutral corner (like he was ordered to) no problem.

But he didn't?