Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2019-05-18, good fight between Josh Taylor and Ivan Baranchyk: it gets three stars.Both undefeated, the former Olympian Josh Taylor entered this fight with a perfect boxing record of 14-0-0 (12 KOs=86%) and he is ranked as the No.3 super lightweight in the world (currently the #1 in this division is Regis Prograis) while his opponent, the 2009 world amateur junior and current IBF super-Lw champion Ivan Baranchyk, has an official record of 19-0-0 (12 knockout) and he entered as the No.9 in the same weight class. In their last three bouts Taylor has beat Winston Campos (Josh Taylor vs Winston Campos), Viktor Postol (Josh Taylor vs Viktor Postol) and Ryan Martin (Josh Taylor vs Ryan Martin) while Baranchyk has won over Keenan Smith, Petr Petrov (Ivan Baranchyk vs Petr Petrov) and Anthony Yigit (Ivan Baranchyk vs Anthony Yigit). Taylor vs Baranchyk is the semi-final of the World Boxing Super Series super-lightweight tournament (WBSS – Muhammad Ali Trophy) and it is valid for the WBC Silver and IBF world super lightweight titles. Watch the video and rate this fight!
Date: 2019-05-18
Where: The SSE Hydro, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Division: light welterweight (140 lbs, 63.5 kg)
Title: WBC Silver and IBF world super lightweight titles
Taylor’s previous fight: Josh Taylor vs Ryan Martin
Baranchyk’s previous fight: Ivan Baranchyk vs Anthony Yigit
Baranchyk’s next fight: Ivan Baranchyk vs Gabriel Bracero
Taylor’s next fight: Regis Prograis vs Josh Taylor
Taylor vs Baranchyk full fight video:
(Free embeddable video hosted on Youtube and not uploaded by AllTheBestFights)
Official video – Taylor vs Baranchyk starts at 2:43:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fOpKuvkdA4
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x78p80o
Official video
FOTY.
Lots of credit to Baranchyk who showed he is more than just a meat grinder. Even more credit to Taylor who twice downed the Beast.
Prograis v. Taylor is going to be beautiful!
Good fight with Baranchyk being more active than Taylor but with no much success because of well executed Taylor’s moves which in fact made him missing a lot. Taylor’s right hook was very precise producing the first knock down of the 6th round. From there on, a fight that was almost balanced, inclined undoubtedly in favor of Taylor the right winner. In my opinion, Taylor didn’t exploit enough his reach advantage neither his gifted southpaw stance. He should concentrate more and do it in his futures bouts.