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Enable Cookies<\/a> If Taylor, their ‘super champion’ at 140lbs, had moved up he could have become the mandatory challenger for Crawford at welterweight. Instead Taylor honoured his promise to give Jack Catterall a shot at his undisputed title.<\/p>\n “That’s the only regret I’ve got from my career. I was awarded the ‘super’ title with the WBO after I beat Ramirez and it [allowed him] to go up to welterweight to get that fight,” Taylor told Sky Sports.<\/p>\n “I shook the guy’s hand. There were no contracts involved,” he said of fighting Catterall.<\/p>\n “I could have easily went: ‘See you later, go earn your chance.’ But because he had stepped aside, because he was mandatory challenger and he allowed me to fight Ramirez first for all the marbles, so I made a deal with the guy, I shook the guy’s hand, which everybody seems to forget, and said if I win you get first shot. And that’s what happened.<\/p>\n “I stuck to my word. But everybody seems to forget that, especially him,” he added.<\/p>\n “That’s the only little regret that I’ve got. But I don’t lose any sleep over it.”<\/p>\n Watch highlights as Terence Crawford stuns Canelo Alvarez to become undisputed super middleweight champion. Canelo vs Crawford is now available to watch globally only on Netflix<\/p>\n He would have like to have shared the ring with all-time great Crawford.<\/p>\n “I think he did a better job against Canelo than what Mayweather did. He had a fight with him. Mayweather just danced and moved and made him miss. Crawford made him miss and made him pay on multiple occasions and took the fight to him,” Taylor said.<\/p>\n “I would say he beats Mayweather,” he added. “I think Mayweather had the better opponents but you can only beat who’s put in front of you and Crawford did that.”<\/p>\n Taylor, 34 years old, had to retire from boxing in July due to an eye injury.<\/p>\n “It has been tough,” Taylor reflected. “I’ve had good days and bad days. The bad days have been bad, the good days have been brilliant. I’ve been so busy chasing something over the last 20 odd years, to all of a sudden have nothing to chase.<\/p>\n “You find yourself in the house by yourself, everyone’s working, your friends are working, your wife’s working,” he continued. “Your family’s working and you find yourself just on your own. I found it quite hard to deal with.”<\/p>\n Josh Taylor is backing Nathaniel Collins to pick up his baton as a huge boxing star for Scotland and would love to see him face Nick Ball in the future<\/p>\n He was shaken by the grim news of Ricky Hatton’s death. “It kind of gave me a wake up call and a shake. I said what am I doing, I’ve got a lot to live for,” he said. “He was my hero.<\/p>\n “I’ve got a lot to be proud for. I’ve had a bit of time now to reflect on my career. I’m very, very proud of what I’ve done and honoured what I’ve done. Before I never really had time to sit and reflect on it because I was involved in it so much, and always seeing what’s next.<\/p>\n “Now I’m sitting in my living room and I’m looking at my belts and I can appreciate it now.”<\/p>\n He still has the daredevil side to his character that drew him to boxing. He’s now directing that into other pursuits, especially his love of motorbikes.<\/p>\n “I don’t think that will ever go. I might go do another couple of skydives,” Taylor said. “The adrenalin buzz of the fight, up and down, hurting the guy, him maybe hurting you a little bit, you’re up and down and the noise of the crowd\u2026 The buzz, it’s just amazing.<\/p>\n “The only thing that gets close to that for me is my motorbikes. I can deal with it that way. That’s a hobby,” he added. “Unless someone wants to sponsor Tartan Tornado racing!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Josh Taylor\u2019s only regret, after a glittering boxing career, is not fighting Terence Crawford. 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