{"id":22625,"date":"2025-07-25T11:24:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T11:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/22625\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T11:24:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T11:24:09","slug":"josh-taylor-retires-a-brilliant-career-that-burned-bright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/22625\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Taylor Retires: A Brilliant Career That Burned Bright"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RuleOfTheSpearFri Jul 25, 2025, 1:39 AM UTC<\/p>\n<p>paulie, name one hall of famer he beat<\/p>\n<p>BlackRobbFri Jul 25, 2025, 1:21 AM UTC<\/p>\n<p>Taylor was nothing special. Paulie is on crack. Taylor and Prograis both chirped years ago about moving up to 147 to see Bud Crawford, but neither ever did. I honestly don&#8217;t see what was so special about him. To say he would have held up at 140 against Floyd, Tszyu, Chavez, Cotto and Junior Witter is laughable.<\/p>\n<p>RJJ-94-02=GOATThu Jul 24, 2025, 8:42 PM UTC<\/p>\n<p>Taylor looked to be on a HOF trajectory pre-Catterall. It all went down hill from there. He left his best days on the scales I think. Should\u2019ve went to 147 after Ramirez- easy to say in hindsight admittedly.<\/p>\n<p>peter58Thu Jul 24, 2025, 4:10 PM UTC<\/p>\n<p>Paulie is always on target with his analysis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RuleOfTheSpearFri Jul 25, 2025, 1:39 AM UTC paulie, name one hall of famer he beat BlackRobbFri Jul 25,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,14496,14497,14498,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-22625","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-josh-taylor","10":"tag-paulie-malignaggi","11":"tag-paulies-picks","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}