Comments Thread For: Josh Taylor-Regis Prograis: Afterthoughts

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Josh Taylor-Regis Prograis was as good as it looked on paper. It might have been even better than that. In one of the best fights of the year, and for the second time in a unification fight at 140 lbs. this year, two undefeated fighters left everything they had in the ring. Unlike the Jose Ramirez-Maurice Hooker fight, last Saturday's showdown was the sort of grueling twelve-round affair we one day could look back on as chapter one.
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[Rbjr77]

Regis should easily put himself @#1 in all the sanction bodies by knocking off a top 5 fighter. Robert Easter just entered 140 and a few others will too. Because Regis was already WBC mandatory and Remerez chose not to enter wbss, he should have requested his WBC position regardless to the outcome of the wbss.

[Realizniguhnit]

Regis is powerful but I've always noticed he's had slow hands and slow feet and lacks explosiveness. He also get's hit, A LOT.

We can say what we what about the great effort he put up but that simply isn't going to cut it at the elite level. He'll always have trouble with fast high volume accurate punchers.

[john l]

I see you used the V for violence thing from Twitter. Nice.

[john l]

Regis is powerful but I've always noticed he's had slow hands and slow feet and lacks explosiveness. He also get's hit, A LOT.

We can say what we what about the great effort he put up but that simply isn't going to cut it at the elite level. He'll always have trouble with fast high volume accurate punchers.

I disagree about his explosiveness. Also his defense is not anywhere near that bad. He just got beat by a better fighter, but was very competitive. He has already proven he can compete at top level with just this fight alone. Who else, but poss Ramirez would you pick to beat him?

[Realizniguhnit]

I disagree about his explosiveness. Also his defense is not anywhere near that bad. He just got beat by a better fighter, but was very competitive. He has already proven he can compete at top level with just this fight alone. Who else, but poss Ramirez would you pick to beat him?

Explosiveness is just that. Being Explosive. Nothing about Regis style is explosive he's just a concussive puncher that stays in 1 gear and breaks you down. Not only was he hit a lot by Taylor he also was hit a lot against Relikh as well. Competing at the top level and separating yourself among the elite class are 2 totally different things.

Regis plans were to beat Taylor, face Ramirez and move up to 147. Not only would him being capable of beating Ramirez be in doubt but him beating anyone that's elite at 147 would be highly questionable as well.

But I will say this. From watching videos of him in training camp. Something tells me Regis may have over trained a bit for Taylor. Not saying that would have made some huge difference in the outcome because of the discrepancy in speed but just a thought. I think sometimes less is more especially when your body is beginning to tell you it's time to move up.