Comments Thread For: Ellerbe: Josh Taylor's An Excellent Fighter; Probably 70 People At Tank's Fight Even Heard Of Him

[maguirre]

Don't know who keeps asking him about Taylor. Whoever it is he must be so ******. Why add another name to the mix when Tank hasn't even fought the guys fans want to pit him with for years?

[Rodtang]

I meant Mikey at 140 is a way better name and boxer than Taylor. The other two at 135.

I would love to see JT vs Mikey because for Josh as a legacy driven fighter that's a bigger fight than Davis. Won't happen though for obvious reasons.

[4truth]

Mikey Garcia?
I'd rather Davis stick to 135 and fight Russell or Cruz Gonzalez next.

There are definitely other good options.

I'm convinced you are a shill. There is just no other explanation for the ****** things you keep saying.

[Rodtang]

Ellerbe is pretty annoying but he has a point. Taylor is an undisputed, unified champ, but not even that many brits have heard of him let alone the yanks. The guy is missing out on millions, imagine if Hearn or Haymon had him in their stable.

Unfortunately for Josh and it totally baffles me , he wasn't signed by matchroom or Queensberry when he turned over and so he had no major platform exposure in Uk. So his first real decent exposure in Uk came in the tournament. With Top rank they don't do nothing for him in the UK. In America he'll never get that popularity as he's not American so being with Haymon would not make much difference. Top rank was right move for the Ramirez ,Crawford and Lopez fights but beyond that he'll have difficulty getting decent fights

[_Rexy_]

Unfortunately for Josh and it totally baffles me , he wasn't signed by matchroom or Queensberry when he turned over and so he had no major platform exposure in Uk. So his first real decent exposure in Uk came in the tournament. With Top rank they don't do nothing for him in the UK. In America he'll never get that popularity as he's not American so being with Haymon would not make much difference. Top rank was right move for the Ramirez ,Crawford and Lopez fights but beyond that he'll have difficulty getting decent fights

Top Rank is now showing their fights on Sky though. Unfortunately for Taylor, I think that began with the Inoue fight.

[Rodtang]

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But all the big fights bud ,Teo etc will happen in US , so not prime time viewing for the average sport fan as it'll be like 5am ish for the fight starting.

[Roj]

Josh Taylor beat an overhyped, pedestrian and one-dimensional Jose Ramirez, a guy who only had a belt because there are a million of them around in today’s boxing. Now he seems set to go on a Tyson Fury-like year -long celebration living off this win - and yammer about being “undisputed” when in reality it’s not really all that big a deal.

[Sctrojan]

Eventually they"ll have to put Tank in with someone credible and this whole 3 divisional champ charade will come to an abrupt end. They're doing tank no favors with these constant overmatched opponents. One day they're going to **** up thier matchmaking and Tank probably gets "maidana'd"...book it.

[LA_2_Vegas]

Not that many heard of Barrios either, the difference is that Taylor would be trying to be a lot more physical than Barrios was even though he had a trainer like Virgil Hunter in his corner. I would have liked to have heard Andre Ward commentating Tank-Barrios.

Anyway, after listening to Tank's post fight interview on SHO, I think he'd be more honest with this answer than Ellerbe. Once the noise around him is quiet, he seems pretty aware and sounds like he knows what he's looking at in the ring, I enjoyed listening to him talking tactics, sound like a young Tyson a little. I don't think he would be downplaying Taylor,

edit: I forgot he said he didn't even know Taylor-Ramirez was a thing. Maybe they watched it

[PoserExposer]

Ellerbe and Floyd think the people buy their BS. Not sure who has more excuses, Windmill Wilder or these two clowns. Tank is no 3 division champion, all “70” of us know Josh Taylor and Teofimo Lopez are the true WBA Super Champions at 135-140.