{"id":13114,"date":"2025-07-21T14:33:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T14:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/13114\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T14:33:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T14:33:07","slug":"josh-taylor-reveals-reason-for-retiring-from-boxing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/13114\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Taylor reveals reason for retiring from boxing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former undisputed super-lightweight champion Josh Taylor<\/a> has officially announced his retirement from boxing today, on July 21, 2025.<\/p>\n

The 34-year-old Scotsman has lost his last three fights in a row, and hasn’t won in over three years. However, his recent losing streak is not the reason for his decision to hang up the gloves.<\/p>\n

“The Tartan Tornado” took to social media to announce the difficult news: “End of an era. I have lived my dream for the last 10 years & conquered Mount Everest.<\/p>\n

“Thank you to every single one of you for the support through what has been this mad rollercoaster of a journey.<\/p>\n

“Boxing is all I\u2019ve ever known but now let\u2019s see what life has to offer on the other side of the ropes.”<\/p>\n

His official statement was attached as a graphic to his post, which revealed he has incurred an eye injury forcing him to make the difficult decision to retire.<\/p>\n

The statement read: “Right folks, this isn’t an easy post for me to write, but on the advice of my doctors, it’s sadly a necessary one.<\/p>\n

“While the fighter in me always wants to box on, I know I have to listen to the medical professionals and save me from myself.<\/p>\n

“It is certainly not the way I wanted to bow out but I have to listen to the doctors and those around me.<\/p>\n

“I am just a kid from the Pans who scaled the very top of the sport but I could not have done it without those who have supported me through thick and thin.”<\/p>\n

Despite dreaming of becoming motorcycle world champion, like his childhood heroes Steve Hislop and Valentino Rossi, Taylor instead became a taekwondo champion before switching to boxing aged 15.<\/p>\n

From Prestonpans, Scotland, he won silver at the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games, then went one better in the\u00a0 2014 Glasgow\u00a0Commonwealth Games to win gold.<\/p>\n

His pro debut in 2015 saw him win by second-round knockout in Texas. He knocked out his first seven opponents, which saw him crowned Commonwealth super-lightweight champion with his seventh stoppage in October 2016.<\/p>\n

In his 10th pro bout, he defeated domestic rival Ohara Davies in round seven in Glasgow in what was a a real grudge match after a lot of needle in the build-up.<\/p>\n

In 2018, Taylor entered the World Boxing Super Series, which catapulted him to global stardom. JT defeated three unbeaten opponents in the tournament – 22-0 Ryan Martin; 19-0 Ivan Baranchyk; 24-0 Regis Prograis.<\/p>\n

He left the tournament as the overall winner and WBA Super, IBF world and Ring Magazine super-lightweight champion.<\/p>\n

In his 18th bout, he made history by decisioning Jose Ramirez unanimously in Las Vegas to add the WBC and WBO belts to his collection, crowning him as Scotland’s first-ever undisputed champion in a four-belt era and second only in his country’s history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former undisputed super-lightweight champion Josh Taylor has officially announced his retirement from boxing today, on July 21, 2025.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-13114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}