Comments Thread For: Josh Taylor Dominates, Stops Ryan Martin in Seventh Round

[trippers1]

martin looked like he had froze on the occasion just stood there for the first 3 rounds with a high gaurd not throwing punches. not sure if abel sanchez could do much about that, the stoppage was early however it was going that way and would have prob just got worse for martin as taylor was landing some solid shots.

[ruedboy]

because if ryan martin was trained by someone else, he would of won!

Any other trainer, first round KO! No doubt!

[Marvlus Marv]

The ref saved Martin from a worse pounding. He was ready to fold through Taylor's tremendous body smashing. Josh keeps on getting better with every fight. Sparkling stuff.

[PsychoPat]

Saturday November 3, 2018
The SSE Hydro, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Commission: British Boxing Board of Control
Promoter: Sauerland Event - Wilfried Sauerland
Live- DAZN Stream

WBA "Super" WORLD
BANTAMWEIGHT TITLE

Ryan Burnett- 19W(9KO)-0L
VS
Nonito Donaire- 38W(24KO)-5L(1KO)

Josh Taylor- 13W(11KO)-0L

VS

Ryan Martin- 22W(12KO)-0L

I got the picks right on the poll could you transfer that into pick em success? #nostradamuslives

[SteveM]

Heard of fighters having good chins, I think Martin has good ribs! Some of the body shots he took were wicked.

Abel offered little in the corner but just telling Martin to throw something...

Stoppage was odd, the shot was behind the head (though not deliberate) and Martin didn’t look badly hurt... he did however look like he wanted a way out.

He didn't offer a plan B or much adjustment comments. But wait a second... the fundamental thing here is throw a damn punch or two. If you are not even doing that then it doesn't really matter if you are a brawler, counter puncher or boxing off the back foot.

I thing Sanchez had already recognised that his fighter had frozen. Sanchez said after the second round "you need to start throwing" . After the 3rd round he said "just throw punches - doesn't matter if you hit his shoulders".

I think this was good advice - if Ryan would just have thrown a few more punches - ok, a lot more punches - then at least Taylor would have know he couldn't throw with impunity. As it was Martin was close to being a heavy bag because he froze.

[aobura]

What a useless boxer Ryan Martin is.You can't just follow you opponent around the ring just to eat punches. You'd rather remain in a shell! If i were his trainer `i would have puled him out as early as the 4th

[P4Pdunny]

Martin was getting a beating

[1hourRun]

Another BS UK stoppage, when will this end?

[SteveM]

Wasn't this the same ref who stopped a Joshua fight early? Fight before Parker? It was a blow behind the head but Martin turned his body half way around from Taylor and was catching a beating without throwing back - some of you guys are real blood thirsty ghouls. Martin is still young and if he can toughen up mentally and get better footwork he can regroup. But he'll have to be very humble here a la Murata.

[nick_viking]

He didn't offer a plan B or much adjustment comments. But wait a second... the fundamental thing here is throw a damn punch or two. If you are not even doing that then it doesn't really matter if you are a brawler, counter puncher or boxing off the back foot.

I thing Sanchez had already recognised that his fighter had frozen. Sanchez said after the second round "you need to start throwing" . After the 3rd round he said "just throw punches - doesn't matter if you hit his shoulders".

I think this was good advice - if Ryan would just have thrown a few more punches - ok, a lot more punches - then at least Taylor would have know he couldn't throw with impunity. As it was Martin was close to being a heavy bag because he froze.

Martin looked nervous as hell in the corner. He definitely froze.

It was similar in the Gassiev Usyk fight, where Gassiev was having his ears boxed off, but Abel’s didn’t offer anything specific to help his fighter turn the tide.

I would’ve liked to have seen him try a different approach with Martin after a couple of rounds. Realising that he’s frozen, maybe give him something specific to work on for a round - might have snapped Martin back to the present.

If Sanchez has seen any of Taylor’s fights, you know he’s going to heavily target the body - it was like there was no plan to nullify that. Nothing they’d worked on in the gym he could remind Martin of.

So is Abel good at conditioning, but tactically naive?