If the fight does eventually get made, Josh Taylor believes that it should be an “easy” fight for his old rival, Catterall.

Back in May 2021, Taylor beat Ramirez to become the undisputed junior welterweight champion.

The famous win made the proud Scotsman Britain's first fighter to successfully unify all four major world titles.

Taylor - who also held The Ring title at 140 pounds for almost four years - has since retired from the sport but former WBO/WBC junior welterweight champion, Ramirez, is still plugging away and has long been linked to a welterweight fight with Catterall.

Taylor successfully defended his undisputed title against the Englishman in 2022 but Catterall evened the score two years later.

Over the past 16 months, 33-year-old Ramirez has suffered consecutive defeats to Arnold Barboza Jr. and Devin Haney and Taylor doesn’t believe that his fortunes will be improved by a move up to 147 pounds.

“Ramirez is finished. I finished him. He was never the same after I boxed him,” Taylor told The Ring.

“It should be an easy fight for Jack and I think it will be because it was an easy fight for me way back then.”

Taylor travelled to Las Vegas to fight Ramirez in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Boxing in front of a limited crowd, Taylor dropped the aggressive Californian twice on his way to a history making unanimous decision victory.

Although the judge’s cards failed to reflect Taylor’s dominance during the middle rounds - all three of them scored the fight 114-112 - they did at least crown the right winner.

Taylor ran a gauntlet of top level opposition on his way to the undisputed title but although he respects Ramirez’s toughness, he doesn’t rate him as his hardest challenge.

“He’s quite strong. He punches hard enough or solid enough. Apart from that, not great. He is tough I suppose but I put him down,” Taylor remembered.

“He should have been counted out from that uppercut [that dropped Ramirez in the sixth round]. It was about 18 seconds, that count, by the time we got going again.

“By the sixth or seventh round, my left hand was gone. I broke my hand and it was like a balloon. You saw a couple of times when I hit him with the left hand, I had my glove against my side.

“But yeah, that was an easy fight to be honest. I was actually disappointed that I never put my foot on the gas and stopped him because I could have.”