Comments Thread For: Josh Taylor Dismisses Catterall Controversy, Blames British Bias: I've Had Nobody Come Up and Say It Was a Robbery

[RightJabLikeZab]

Wasn't a robbery and I don't even like Taylor. But was a really terrible performance by him. Catterall himself didn't do much the last 4 rounds of the fight and was holding the entire time. Taylor should've just taken the rematch and come back with a smarter gameplan. I think he would've stopped Catterall.

[thack]

Josh went from hero to zero with the comments from that fight that he clearly lost and and is still delusional about to this day, it takes more than titles to be a champion and Josh has let himself and his fans down badly here.

[YoungRJM]

It was a blatant robbery.

lol at all the jocks in this thread trying to defend Ian John-Lewis

It reminds me of Filipinos crying about Manny getting schooled by Floyd saying the stats were fake and Manny won

[ultravividscene]

The pro-English bias is real in the UK media, hence why they hated on Andy Murray until he won a gold medal for 'Team UK'. Joe Calzaghe was criminally ignored by the UK media for most of his career, and numerous other non-english boxers. The fact that Taylor was the first UK boxer to win all 4 belts in the modern era and wasn't even considered for the BBC Sports personality short-list is just another example, whilst the media absolutely deep throats English boxers with a fraction of the talent like Benn/Eubank/AJ/Whyte.

Calzaghe wasn't so much ignored as inaccessible for most people. His career kicked off on satellite tv at a time when most people didn't have it. Boxing as a sport in the UK was struggling at the same time due to it moving behind a paywall. Luckily for us fans the internet came along and rescued it

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I thought Taylor won at least 4+ rounds, but im not going to be re-watching it anytime soon. people claim 7-5 fights are robberies nowadays.. so yeah.

Catterall landed double the amount of punches, dropped him and bashed him up.

[The Big Dunn]

Catterall should be defending his unified, undisputed JWW title against Sandor Martin as they both had wins stolen from them against Taylor and Teo respectively.

[richardt]

They don't tell Taylor it was a robbery because they don't want to be punched in the face, lol.

[Butt stuff]

That’s not what you call getting schooled kid. Fight could have went either way or been a draw.

Let’s be honest though, Catterall embarrassed Taylor and made him look amateur for a large portion of the fight. He was swinging and missing big, trying to force a KO and getting clipped constantly.

It’s the worst I’ve ever seen Taylor look. Also you can have a close fight with a clear winner, which I think this was.

[theface07]

It was a blatant robbery.

lol at all the jocks in this thread trying to defend Ian John-Lewis

Did you hear Ian John-Lewis complain afterwards that he was unfairly scapegoated? The nerve of this guy!

[jackblack008]

Just STFU.