![]() Khongsong (16-0, 13 KO) will be a huge underdog in the fight. I can’t wait to smash this guy’s head in next week.” Taylor is sounding confident about the return and the work he’s done with Davison, posting to social media, “Training camp is finished and all the hard work is done. Taylor will now be working with trainer Ben Davison, who has worked with Tyson Fury and Billy Joe Saunders in the last few years, and was hugely credited with helping Fury get back into fighting shape. The Scottish fighter has since signed with Top Rank, leaving behind his former promoter, Barry McGuigan, and also meant the end of his fighter-trainer relationship with Barry’s son, Shane McGuigan.ĭate: Saturday, Sept. The 29-year-old Taylor (16-0, 12 KO) brought the two belts together in his collection with a tough win over Regis Prograis, which also made Taylor the World Boxing Super Series Ali Trophy winner. 26, making a mandatory defense against little-known challenger Apinun Khongsong. ![]() James is now 4-0, yet to score a stoppage.WBA and IBF unified 140-pound titleholder Josh Taylor is set to fight for the first time in 11 months when he returns on Saturday, Sept. He didn’t do anything that will wow you here, but won all four rounds clean and clear over Pilkington (2-8-1, 0 KO). And he was a good amateur at the Youth/Junior level, winning Commonwealth gold and European silver. ![]() Eithan James PTS-4 Kris Pilkington: James is a 20-year-old junior welterweight who looks all of about 13 in his BoxRec profile photo, though in real life in 2020 he definitely looks older than he did there, I think that’s a shot from his amateur days.Davey, a junior middleweight prospect, got a clear win, 40-36 on the referee’s card, but he had to think about a few things in there, and that’s useful. Thomas had been out of action between 2012 and March of this year, but he’s back with some real spirit, and he landed some shots in this fight and gave it a go. George Davey PTS-4 Jeff Thomas: The 38-year-old Thomas (12-8-3, 1 KO) gave the 22-year-old Davey (3-0, 0 KO) a valuable little fight here.Joyce was down once in the third, and the referee stepped in as he was facing another assault. Joyce moved down to 122 in his last fight and beat a faded Lee Haskins, but Baluta rushed him in this fight and just beat him up. Baluta upset former world titlist TJ Doheny in March, and here he just trucked Joyce (12-2, 9 KO), the 33-year-old former Irish amateur standout who has now lost two of three and probably has to consider whether pro boxing is for him at this point, whether he’ll want to try coming back again or if he’d be content to stick around as probably more of a prospect checker for a while. Ionut Baluta TKO-3 Davey Oliver Joyce: This is two straight good wins for Baluta (14-2, 3 KO), a 26-year-old Romanian, now based in Spain, and both came against Irish guys, for what it’s worth.(I am told Carl Frampton on BT Sport had it 97-93 for Edwards, which is probably closer to how it went. And Williams (11-3, 3 KO) really probably did do better than the referee’s score would lead you to think, too. ![]() He’s not bad, but that top level really might just be beyond his skill set. Edwards (16-1, 6 KO) is a former titleholder at flyweight and a decent fighter, but he doesn’t have wins over any true world class type guys, and lost to Casimero at 112 already, and was going to lose to Julio Cesar Martinez. Bradley in particular pointed out a lot of what he felt were Edwards’ flaws, and advised him to “stay far away” from the top guys at 118 like Naoya Inoue, Nordine Oubaali, and John Riel Casimero.
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