Comments Thread For: Josh Taylor On Challenging Crawford: It's A Massive Fight; I Believe He's The Best Welterweight

[Jab jab boom]

Disagree.... I don't see Crawford beating a Canelo, Loma, GGG, or Ennus due to his leaky defense. He has never been in the ring with a puncher

Fair enough to disagree, I personally think he’s all around better than all of them, especially offensively. He can do things in the ring that they can’t and has a killer mentality when it’s time to end fights. To say he’s never faced a puncher is a bit of an exaggeration. He hasn’t faced a ggg but he’s definitely faced guys that can punch.

[JakeTheBoxer]

Taylor and Crawford would be the best fight for each others so far, so, a great fight.

Taylor is better than Porter, sure.

[JakeTheBoxer]

Exactly. Taylor doesn't even impress me period. He's a skilled southpaw. Which makes him a difficult guy to fight. But he's not one of those monster KO guys at 140. There's been alot of great 140 lb'ers . He's good, not great. He's of average power at 140. He'd be at a great deficit at 147. One of Spence's right uppercuts would lift this kid right out of the ring. Yes, I'd much prefer to see Taylor fight Teo and Loma, Tank etc. If Crawford thinks he did bad with PPV buys with Porter, he'll do even less with Taylor. On the other hand, Crawford fighting Charlo would get him at least 500,000 buys.

Power is not everything in boxing, only casuals think so. Taylor moving to 147 would be like Usyk moving to a heavyweight. Taylor would be one of top dogs there.

[greeneye99]

Not sure if you've followed OLDSKOOLGs career. If he doesn't like your point he won't reply. He must be a politician.

Lololololol
You know him well

[Rodtang]

Lololololol
You know him well

It gives us a laugh though lol.

[Sctrojan]

I like Taylor but Bud smokes him easily. Taylor will have a lot to prove at WW because it's night and day compared to 140.

Disagree homeboy. Not saying Taylor would win but no one at Welter is "smoking" that dude. He's just one of those rare fighters that is willing to walk through that fire to get it done. I underestimated him against 2 really good fighters in Regis and Jose but proved to have more dog/determination/skills than them as well, which speaks volumes. He is susceptible to getting dragged into exchanges/war,which obviously favors Bud, but it seems Bud isnt taking those chances himself until late in fights recently. To me Taylor is skilled and smart enough to not have that lapse. Either way a great fight no doubt.

[Roadblock]

Bob is not going to put Taylor in with Bud after Bud left him, Arum will stop the fight from happening and is not in the habit of allowing a previously owned fighter to beat his champions.

[Boxing-1013]

Crawford KO’s this racist POS.

Why is he a racist

[Roberto Vasquez]

It's hard to believe Taylor can beat Crawford when he's fighting Jack Catterall (who??) next