{"id":18198,"date":"2025-07-24T05:42:31","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T09:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/josh-taylor-retires-from-boxing-due-to-eye-problems-end-of-a-legend\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T05:42:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T09:42:31","slug":"josh-taylor-retires-from-boxing-due-to-eye-problems-end-of-a-legend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/boxing\/josh-taylor-retires-from-boxing-due-to-eye-problems-end-of-a-legend\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Taylor Retires from Boxing Due to Eye Problems: End of a Legend"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a2.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2022%2F0303%2Fr981474_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\nThe undisputed former champion Josh Taylor, at 34 years old, has announced his retirement from boxing due to a recurring eye injury.\n\nTaylor, the first British boxer to be undisputed world champion in the four-belt era, made this decision after receiving medical advice.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>As previously publicized, I have had a recurring issue with my eye which, unfortunately, means I now have to bring my career to an end or risk losing my sight.<\/p><cite>Josh Taylor<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nThe Scottish pugilist, recognized as one of the greatest boxers of all time, has decided to hang up his gloves.\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JoshTaylorBoxer\/status\/1947270541238210689\" target=\"_blank\">Josh Taylor&#8217;s statement on social media<\/a><\/p>\n\nTaylor won the silver medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games and gold in Glasgow in 2014. His professional career took off with seven consecutive knockout victories, achieving his first world title in his fifteenth fight by defeating Ivan Baranchyk.\n\nIn 2019, Taylor won the final of the World Boxing Super Series, defeating Regis Prograis at the O2 Arena in London, where he also unified the super lightweight division, obtaining the WBA title.\n\nIn 2021, he became the undisputed champion by defeating Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00edrez in Las Vegas, adding the WBC and WBO belts to his collection.\n\nTaylor&#8217;s retirement comes after three consecutive points defeats against Ekow Essuman in May, Catterall in May last year, and Teofimo L\u00f3pez in June 2023.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Certainly, it&#8217;s not the way I wanted to retire, but I have to listen to the doctors and those around me.<\/p><cite>Josh Taylor<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nTaylor expressed his gratitude to those who supported him throughout his career.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The undisputed former champion Josh Taylor, at 34 years old, has announced his retirement from boxing due to a recurring eye injury. Taylor, the first British boxer to be undisputed world champion in the four-belt era, made this decision after receiving medical advice. As previously publicized, I have had a recurring issue with my eye [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[205,6085,2710,168],"class_list":{"0":"post-18198","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-eye-injury","10":"tag-josh-taylor","11":"tag-retirement"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}