
WHEN it comes to motivation for professional boxers, the clue is in the job description: they fight for money. There is glory involved, too, of course, when it comes to winning national, international and world titles and Josh Taylor has had his fair share of both.
In May last year he defeated previously unbeaten Californian Jose Ramirez in Las Vegas to become the first Briton to own the belts of all four sanctioning bodies – WBA, WBC, WBO and IBF – simultaneously as he unified the light-welterweight division.