There was no sense of end. All this for Josh Taylor was over.
He had gone to laser surgery on his eye, which is a method he was expecting to solve a lasting problem.
But further examination revealed that in fact, there were six tears in his retina tissue. If they flare up again – let me fight alone, which he intended – another corn could blind him into his eyes.
In the four belt era, Britain’s first and only non -controversial world champion, there, and then, realized that he had to retire.
“My decision was a kind for me,” Taylor said. Sky Sports. “If I wander here, I’m blind.
He added, “I have to calculate my blessings. I am very fortunate that I have not lost my eyes already. When I am ahead, come out.” “I will go out of my health instead of going to and fighting well and potentially damaged that will keep me the rest of my life.”
Taylor’s position is fixed in the history of British boxing. The proud Scottsman became a professional in 2015 and went on a wonderful winner, which quickly climbed the world championship level.
He won his first world honor, IBF Belt, when he defeated the Ivan Barchak in the SSE Hydro in 2019, in which Pound for Pound Star Novia Anui Low Long Long Long Long Long Long Lonely Long Lonely Long tall tall tall tall tall tah lol tah lol tah lol tall tah lol tah lol tah lol tah lol tah lol tah lol tah lol tah lol tah lol tah lol tah lol tah lol tah lol tah lol tah lol tah lol tah lol tah l
They united the WBA and IBF’s Super Lightweight World Titles when they defeated Regis Progress in a thrilling battle to win the World Boxing Super Series.
Taylor was crowned the controversial champion when he defeated Jose Ramirers in Las Vegas and collected all four major belts, and left Ramirz twice in a fight.
Scottsman said, “completed the game. Many people were asking to retire after becoming controversial, especially my parents because they know how dangerous boxing is, you have completed the game.”
“How competitive I am, very competitive, I wanted to get even more and I wanted to continue the fight.
“Perhaps one or two more, hopefully there was a fight for Easter Road and bend. This was not to happen. It was not written for me.
“I have been bowing down as the only non -controversial champion in the four belt era from the UK. I have had a little time to consider my career and I am very proud, when I think about it, I get a bit emotional.”
Three defeats of his career came into his last three battles. He met Tofemo Lopez in a WBO Super Latweight title collision at Madison Square Garden, when the US wins a unanimous decision, its strong start to end.
After his first fight with his tough dispute, Jack Catal won his re -match last year. In May, EcoSamon also won the unanimous decision.
Taylor’s eye problems began after the progress battle in 2019. “The alignment in the eyes has ended. From that time it has been a repeated problem. After the Ramir’s battle, I had my first surgery and then there was an iceberg of the wounded and the worries.”
“I’ve been able to compete at the top level. Very proud of what I have done.”
HE HE HE HE HE HE HE, 11 years ago, he actually looks back fondly to win the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
He said, “It was a proud moment of my career – it was doing not for myself but for my own country. It was a proud moment of my life.”
“I always knew that I was going to be a world champion. So when I did it, I was like ‘OK the next’. It is doing it, what are we doing now. I am always ‘what we are doing’ and chasing.
“I always look forward to what is next.
“I’m really going to chase and lose hunting. It has been some ride – the best memories of my life, ups and downs and fluctuations. This has been the hell of a roller coaster ride.”
Taylor always welcomed his supporters in Scotland. Creating his color for his first battle with Kittal in Glasgow, with all four of his new winning global honors, was a epic moment.
Taylor reminded, “It was incredible, the noise and the atmosphere coming home after becoming a controversial world champion was unrealistic.”
“Now, I wish I wanted to stand there for 20, 30 seconds, maybe a minute and just stand and absorb it all. Because when you see all these battles and hear the crowd and the environment, it’s incredible.
“Just and the crowd and noise, this is something I will remember, it is something I will miss a lot. I am going to take something to make a habit in normal life without having nothing to do.”
There is a lot of leaving behind. “It’s going to be difficult,” he said. “I have gone for more than 20 years, my whole life has been boxing, travels all over the world as an amateur, wins medals.
“Traveling the world with my friends in boxing, all these different cultures, and food and music, amazing, now it is now snatched …
“This has been amazing in the last 20 years, boxing has given me so much experience of life, it has been unrealistic.”
The loss, the loss of this purpose, the driving inspiration, is currently rough. The strange thing about being a boxer, especially the global champion, is this game not just what you do, it’s you. Fighting, severity, pain, discomfort, training, goals, winners, losing, even intervals – comfortably recovering and recovering from boxing. Then it all ended.
“Suddenly,” Taylor said, “Now I can go and maybe I can start living a little life.”
But he reflected: “It was a great life. I was dreaming. I was living in my dreams to become a professional boxer.
“I had nothing but a dream, I didn’t have two pans to rub together.
“It’s over now and I am just … now it feels like my world is getting worse, but it is very positive and I have reminded me of it in the last two weeks. It has been quite difficult but it has been good.”
When he sat in his room while speaking, he looked at his opposing wall, with all these global title belt he won on the way in the display. He will always have he and his place in British boxing folk tales.
He told himself, “You did fine for a small boy in Prestonpian.” “I’ve done right. And I got to remind it.”