Among the saddest experiences I had as a boxing historian, is the discovery of long forgotten competitions in which one of the heroes died at the hands of the opponent. Since the war, there have been many fatalities in the British rings, some with the participation of celebrated fighters, but fortunately they happen much less often than they used to be. In the first days of playing gloves, and then in the 1920s and 1930s, the game safety side was significantly omitted, and only one doctor usually participates in professional tournaments and medical for candidates, so today routine, unheard of. Judges often allowed boxers to be much more punished than today, and the general public, hardened both by the great war and a huge number of children dying at a youthful age, had a more bland approach to death in general. The boxer dying in the ring did not hit the headers in the way today. Recently, I came across the ancient Royal Marine postcard, a private sampson, whose name seemed particularly known to me. When I looked at him at my records, I saw that he had died in a competition at the cosmopolitan gymnasium in Plymouth in March 1914. I think it would be right to honor this unfortunate youthful man, saying what I know about his history.

William James Sampson was a member of the Royal Marine Lithe Infantry, and in the moment of his death he served on board HMS Majestic, a pre -anticipated battleship. RMLI produced many good professional boxers at that time and most of them often fought in “Cosmo”, because this celebrated ancient place was known by fans of the fight of this period. Sampson, from Taunton, had his first competition in February 1911 during service with the Navy. He was 26 at the time of his death. He had 14 professional competitions and each of them took place in Cosmo.

After losing the first three competitions that I can find for him, in December 1912 he led Dick Hillson from Plymouth. This was the first of a series of victories that would lead to his last two competitions, which were against one of the best men Plymouth at that time, youthful Lippo. In 1913, and the early part of 1914 Sampson was undefeated in eight competitions, and they saw how he passed from six runes to eight, then 10, and ultimately to 15-round at the summit of the bill.

On February 13, 1914, Sampson was adapted to Lippo in the first 15-rund. Sampson fought last week when he created a kind of surprise, knocking out the sailor Bob Savage in four rounds. He came as a very behind schedule substitute for Lippo, which was originally caused by the Frenchman, Auguste Dumas. Lippo was exceeding Sampson in class and few gave Marine a chance against him. The BN headline was: “Private Sampson creates a sensation” in the description of the fight against the game that Sampson established against Lippo. After the pair was exhausted in the ninth and forward in the points Sampson retired. Both were immediately adapted to a featherlight title in Western England, and three weeks later they met again. Sampson again fought with Lippo, raising him in the third, but he ran out of couple again. At 12. He suddenly fell on a canvas. He was transferred to his wardrobe, but he never regained consciousness. Private Sampson died the next afternoon. According to judge JT Hulls, Samppson led at the time of fall.

His ship, Majestic, lasted only a year longer, was torpedoed in Gallipoli with a loss of 49 accompanied by Sampson.

It can be safely said that Floyd Mayweather, son of former Pro Floyd SNR and the nephew of the former world champion Roger, will share their opinion.

The invincible, bold, mysterious and extremely talented “money” has dominated the boxing landscape for one reason for the last 10 years.

In the years 2009-2014 it was mostly because he and the Filipino hero of Manny Pacquiao, the two best fighters in sport, could not be signed with each other. This controversy was restricted to history. The couple finally met in 2015 at MGM Grand I, according to his word, Floyd took a clear winner within 12 rounds.

Mayweather was almost inviolable in addition to pushing the Mexican star Jose Luis Castillo (2002) in the first fight and Oscar de la Hoya (2007), in the last solid performance of the aging icon.

Sometimes Mayweather just takes your breath away. He won his first title with an eight -edge victory over the WBC Genaro Hernandez champion, and then dismantled Angel Manferedy in just two sessions. He was at his thorough, acute shooting when the Diego Corrales floor five times on the way to one of the best wins in his multi -lane career before he goes to a slight conflict with Twardy Castillo. A year later, he defeated Demarcus Corley and Henry Bruteles in the 10th eliminators of the title, before he demolished the veteran of the warrior Arturo Gatti in six rounds, exhibiting an exhibition in a acute, harmful counter -contrast.

In the welterweight, Judah was widely overtaken, just like Carlos Baldomir and in the airy of medium weight-de la Hoya underwent an early advantage and received the loss of decision-making points in the highest gross fight in the history of boxing. After the arrival of revenues from the point of view of De La Hoya, he took over $ 50 million home, while Floyd cleaned USD 25 million.

Huge payments occurred for Mayweather against Ricky Hatton, Juan Manuel Marquez, Shane Mosley and Victor Ortiz, when he was retired and beyond, appearing in the three largest wage hits invalid.

The talent that took him to the bronze medal at the Olympic Games in 1996 remained, as he calls it, years of “demanding work and dedication”.

Mayweather is a fantastic athlete and always in shape, but it’s about money. He is a highly paid mercenary who dictated, who he fought when he fought and how much his opponent paid.

“I am not fighting for heritage,” he once said, “I am not fighting for fighting for this check. I am in the Cheque industry.”

The fight against Manny Pacquiao increased both his historical position and bank balance, but when he stood in the face of a prison judgment on home battery allegations in mid -2012, a month after another stern fight, with Miguel Cotto, few thought that the fight would happen.

Nevertheless, his clash from 2013 with the extremely popular Mexican star Saul Alvarez crowned Mayweather-de la Hoya to become the highest disgusting struggle in history. Mayweather also entered the deck when he outclassed “Canelo”. His two fights with the gritty Argentine Marcos Maidana in 2014 were not so inspiring, but caused great interest in showdown with Pacquiao, which overshadowed all previous records, which even the Mayweather set.

Blockbuster struggle produced over $ 400 million of television revenues itself and attracted in the USA in the USA. According to all the account, it was a commercial hit – although many who paid for watching how he changed when Mayweather dominated his Filipino rival, just to make Pacquiao reveal that he tightened the shoulder injury during the fight.

Regardless of this, Mayweather skillfully beat the only man who approached the usurp of his pound for pounds, and thus strengthening heritage even more, which he apparently never fought.

Floyd Mayweather at that time took his eyes on a more sensitive victim. In September last year he fought from the former world champion Andre Berto – who lost three of the last six. He claims that the last fight of Mayweather was not enough to pay attention to which he got used to. As expected, he lit a berto game to make a wide decision on cards.

He razed the book of Rocky Marciano 49-0 and announced that he would put off gloves for good. However, the break did not last long. Mayweather returned in August 2017 to face Cagefighter and boxing debutant Conor McGregor in Crass, winning money as a significant boxing match. No wonder that Mayweather did, as he liked it before the extremely popular Irish UFC star was saved after 10 rounds at the T-Mobile arena in Las Vegas.

Total global revenues from the event, including ticket sales, sponsorship and international distribution, exceeded $ 600 million, which-from the Mayweather-Pacquia, were one of the most lucrative one-day sporting events in history. Mayweather included three highest earning events in history in history, and the third is Mayweather vs. Canelo from 2013.

Josh Taylor turned and raised one hand when Jose Carlos Ramirez fell at the stake at the beginning of the sixth round. The fight is over, one blow changed everything.

It was a kind of moment, a flash of flash that never leaves the mind; Taylor lasted behind, not much, but there were enough signs that Ramirez caused Taylor many problems.

Five rounds down, a few bullets behind them, and the bell sounded on six and four lanes, a place in history, the fight for only the fifth man in the current era to accommodate all four lanes. It was just a fight.

Ramirez came to Taylor at the beginning of the round, pushing him back, and then, under the canopy of the lights, behind the wall of bright seats and in the middle of the intensity, Taylor immersed himself on the left, avoided the first slothful law of the night and put his life in boxing of dreams and fighting in the most perfect top. It was a textbook, brilliant, breathtaking. Ramirez knew that he knew that he made a mistake he swore, that he had never made, but it was too overdue, and the left was connected cleanly and was strongly.

Kenny Bayless, a timeless judge, was there, his hands and his lips for counting the mask, and he was too picky, he asked questions for too long and look at Taylor, who wanted to leave the raw restrictions on the neutral angle. We had a fight. Ramirez had wild eyes of a terrified and confused man – he also has the most basic boxing instincts. Taylor hunted, don’t make a mistake.

It started with a mobile phone, uncomplicated twenty seconds in the first round. Body arrows appeared early from the ramirez, which was faster than Taylor expected. In the second, Taylor got closer, Ramirez looked comfortable. Two rounds and not much to separate them, each of them seemed fair.

In the third round and the fourth round, Ramirez put emphasis on a little more, approached, tilted under the meters, closed the ring. Taylor caught him in the back of the head, Ramirez complained about Bayless, Taylor missed, Ramirez looked cheerful. He smiled to the bell to finish the fourth. It could have been 3-1 for the California warrior. There was a real advantage, the feeling that something special is happening, the feeling that Taylor had to go back to the fight. Not panic, but the need to stop the ramist winning through the hustle and bustle.

Ramirez cut Taylor with his left eye in fifth place, hit him in the body, he was busy, he was cheerful, he joined. There is still no panic, but at the moment 4-1 down it was not cruel. It was a fight and it was supposed to be a hard, hard night if Ramirez kept pressure; Ramirez only knows how to keep pressure. Reminder that they were both unbeaten at the end of the fifth round; Taylor in 17, Ramirez in 26. Why did anyone doubt that there would be magic?

And so it was, it will not be an ordinary fight.

In the first seconds of the sixth left on the left, and Ramirez was down, first face and shoulder face, falling like a man suddenly turned off, a puppet in shorts with cut strings; He was too quick, wild eyes with confusion. It was a moment to enjoy a moment of purity. Time has stopped; He always makes such fights. Bayless looked nervous, Taylor composed, really composed and jumping in the corner, Ramirez wholesale, Korno screams various songs, hitting the desperate canvas, crowd. I love this moment in a great fight.

Strap He was seriously hurt, but his instincts took over. Taylor tried to finish him. These were feverish things, and then it was the seventh round, the fight was even close.

Having less than 30 seconds in the seventh round, with both men marked and tiring, Taylor’s time had the most perfect upper left, and Ramirez was on the back, off the head. Taylor had 24 seconds to end the drama; Ramirez was a impoverished view of the canvas, Bayless was again, and his eyes over the mask’s shock. Punch was a unique, perfect partner in a low left in six.

This time Bayless was very disordered. Ramirez got up, uncertain, winding and Bayless talked to him. Taylor was approaching during the released pace ritual and the clock fell. Taylor was losing key seconds; Fighters like Ramirez always recover, and Taylor had to get to him and stop Bayless, holding the fight. Only a few seconds have passed, but these seconds, in such moments, can make or end their career. It may sound brutally, but Taylor had to finish Ramirez at that moment when Ramirez was the most sensitive. Sorry, but this is our business and Bayless disturbed. If Ramirez was too confused to fight, he should be stopped – if his eyes were clear, he had to continue faster. Of course, the judge is to protect, but these seconds could also refuse Taylor’s finish. I understand that this is a hard debate.

When Bayless finally allowed them to continue at the end of the seventh, there were only a few seconds left, and Ramirez stumbled to the ropes, Taylor tried to find the last blow. The bell sounded; The fight changed in two rounds. Certainly Ramirez had no chance.

Taylor tried to end the fight in eighth place, he did not decide on points, without taking any risk, and Ramirez was certainly wounded because of knocking down. Ramirez survived the round and Taylor was tired. It was a long and emotional stay in Las Vegas, tough days, great pressure in the insulation of the camp. At the beginning of the ninth round, Taylor was in front. He was marked, tired, but there was a place in history. He could join four men, four, who had all four versions of recognized belts: Bernard Hopkins, Jermain Taylor, Terenka Crawford and Oleksandr Usyk. The fight was the best of six so far, in which the four lanes were a reward. Taylor and Ramirez never needed flashy bombs, and when the bell sounded to start the last four rounds, no one was worried about their duties on the latest false belt, lined with fur. Keep your trinkets, I’m here for the quality of the fight.

In rounds nine and ten fell, Taylor was wise, Ramirez recovered and were close to rounds.

At the beginning, eleven to the round the fight was still in balance; Taylor at the front with allocations, but the final verdict has still not been established. Ramirez tried to exert pressure, his impacts and movement much slower, but then Taylor was also tired. The couple fought to this stage, in which they both knew that one blow combining tidy and precisely ended it. It is a weighty weight to wear with the other six or more minutes, and the body shout about peace.

In the last round, during the clinch, Taylor looked at the screen and they were looking for his eyes for now. They both ended with a tiny moment of respect. There were no wide smiles and loving hugs and kisses; They did what is decent and I have no problem with it, the fight was personal.

They had faces, bruises, and then joined Bayless for a sentence. I was convinced that it was Taylor, but it was tight, really tight. The results appeared quickly, the connection delivered at the ring table by men of four sanctioning bodies. There was a silent moment when we waited. Mc was definitely blunt.

He called Tima Cheatham officials, Dave Moretti and Steve Weisfeld-i read the results: 114-112 times three. And all for Josh Taylor. Tight, don’t make a mistake: six rounds, and two pretty touches won his fight. This is boxing in the most dramatic and painful, do not make a mistake. Ramirez dropped his head, and finally accepted with a bit more care. It is a ruthless, this business we worship and this tiny ring from Las Vegas had all the extremes of despair and joy.

Two men have nothing to offer.

Ramirez left his loved ones in tears in the ring and this is never a nice view. Several Taylor fans, waving Scottish flags. He is now a hero and this week, when he returns to Edinburgh, he will take four lanes for a private meeting with Ken Buchanan. This is a class, wonderful.

Two men with a common history and combination of a weighty game.

It is now 6:08 on Sunday morning. The fight ended for hours ago, Taylor is a champion, fifth man. In Las Vegas it is still up and there is no chance that he will soon close his eyes. He has too much to see and do and can start from the east of Sombrero.

Verdict Josh Taylor shows the world how to do it.