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.