Is Josh Taylor a HOF

It's not Crawford hate, let alone ridiculous. I'm combating the ridiculous Taylor hate who is suddenly a bum despite the fact he unified the division in just 18 fights, 5 quicker than before Crawford had even won a world title, and his route to undisputed was tougher than Crawford's too.

Rougarou, JCR (away), Baranchyk>>Postol, Indongo, Dulmore all at home

Postol was not faded when he fought Taylor

And when Crawford fought Postol he was 28-0, had six world title fights of experience under his belt, had fought six world class opponents, and had been 10 rounds or more x 5, including going the full 12 x 2

Conversely, Taylor was 12-0 when he fought Postol, had never fought a prime world class opponent, had zero world title fights, and had never been past round 9

Crawford stunk the joint out against Postol. He spent the entire 12 rounds on his bicycle like he was in against murderous power puncher. That 12 round stink-fest where Postol took minimal damage apart from a couple of flash KDs, one of which was a rabbit punch, ruined Postol?

I can turn that back on you. Do you think Taylor nearly gets knocked out by a way smaller leprechaun Gamboa like Crawford nearly was? Crawford was out on his feet and a clean punch away from getting slept by Gamboa who has no right being up at 135. It took about a minute for his head to clear. Taylor was never remotely close to being hurt like that even though he's fought lots of big/huge punchers like Teofimo, Rougarou, JCR, Baranchyk etc.

I'm not arguing Crawford isn't better than Taylor. He is but fact is his resume is very poor for a 39 fight vet and top 5 P4P fighter and his best wins in those 39 fights are Postol, Porter and Gamboa and Postol is either 1 or 2.

Also, Teofimo is way better than anyone Crawford has ever fought and if Gamboa can hurt Crawford very badly and be a clean punch or two away from KHTFO then I'm sure Teofimo could do a lot worse if he landed one of his bombs on him at 135 or 140.

Again, Crawford is a hell of a fighter and I'm not trying to argue Taylor is better. But Taylor has one of the best resumes in the sport for under 20 fights and he stepped up very quickly, was on a steep learning curve, and became undisputed and damn near cleaned out the 140 division sans one or two in just 18 fights.

 

It's not about blame in this instance. Fact is Taylor has one of the best resumes in the sport for someone with 20 or less fights, it is very impressive to unify and division in just 18 fights, less fights than most world champions had fought before they even became world champions, and Crawford does have a weak resume for a 39 fight vet and P4P top 5 ranked fighter.

Maybe, maybe not.

Teofimo is clearly much better than anyone Crawford has fought and Crawford has fought very few legit punchers or KO artists. At 135 and 140 Teofimo possesses the power, speed and skills to knock him out. Like I said, we saw Gamboa whose record and KO% at 135 is trash hurt him very badly so I see no reason why Teofimo couldn't go one better.

FTR, Gamboa has a tiny 65'' reach and Crawford was bigger or much bigger than those guys he fought at 135. That wouldn't be the case against Teofimo who looked like death on the scales at 135 and was huge for the division.


Teofimo is better when he plays the role of counter puncher and that's how he should approach a fight against Crawford.

I can only recall Crawford scoring one punch KOs like some of these once (Avanesyan) and never down at 135 or 140

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Yeah that was a body punch. I should've clarified that I meant more sparking someone out.

I'm not arguing that a same size Crawford isn't capable of beating him too. But Teofimo is much better than anyone Crawford has ever fought and he's extremely physically gifted and people are acting like that it's a sure thing Crawford beats him at 135 and 140 and I don't see that at all.

Those were flash KDs against Martin to be fair but Kambosos did drop him as well so I think Crawford can hurt him too

Crawford's more consistent for sure but by the same token we've never seen him in against an elite fighter or a KO artist at 135 or 140