Taylor was always massively overrated

Spence has always been comically overrated. Hilariously so even. And he is and always was packing glass

Tons of people had Spence P4P#1 or #2 for a long time

Taylor fought Crawford's best win in just his 13th fight when he had only fought one past prime world champion before, had 0 world title fights, and had never been past 9 rounds before. Conversely, Crawford was 28-0 when he fought Postol, was taking part in his 7th world title fight, and he had been 10 rounds a bunch of times and the full 12 round distance x 2.

And Crawford stunk the joint out vs Postol. He was on his bike all night in mortal fear of getting clipped by the wind of a punch from a fighter with a KO 32%

Taylor became a world champion in 15 fights
Unified in 16
Undisputed in 18 (one of only a handful in the four-belt era)

Spence didn't even win a world title until his 22nd fight and unlike Taylor who actually won and unified all his world titles vs actual career 140 pounders and defended them against actual career 140 pounders and fought big punchers a bunch of times, Spence forged a career cleaning out 147 of its career 140 pounders and blown up 135 Mikey. Spence still to this day has only beaten 2 career 147 pounder world champions and he struggled badly against both even though one of them (Brook) was damaged goods.

After beating Brook he defended his world title (s) against one other career 147 pounder world champion in his entire six year reign

He looked great against all those career 140 pounders and 135 Mikey but struggled badly the only 2 times he fought career 147 pounder world champs and that is hardly a coincidence

And he barely fought any legit punchers, especially ones his size, when he was on Mission Clean Out 147 of its Career 140 Pounders and 135 Mikey

Embarrassing

Brook KO 65%
Ugas KO 37% career 140 pounder who came up
Danny KO 52% career 140 pounder low KO% at 147
Mikey KO 71% blown up 135 pounder whose KO% above 135 = 0
Peterson KO 41% career 140 pounder
Algieri KO 31% - career 140 pounder
Bundu KO 32%
Van Heerden KO 36%
Ocampo KO 60% even Spence admitted Ocampo had no power
Lo Greco KO 47%
Porter KO 47%

He was always soft chinned. Hence why he'd been hurt numerous times by light-average punchers at best, especially at 147, and had to spit his gumshield out to buy himself time to recover.

Crawford dropped him with a jab for goodness sake.

Egis, peg-leg cripple Benavidez, Avanesyan, and double hip replacement Porter all did better against Crawford than Spence and that's just at 147.

Spence was pure PBC/Showtime smoke and mirrors hype

 

And a 7 fight novice 140 pound Taylor bashed up Spence's best win Shawn Porter, a razor-close life and death decision win that many felt Porter won or at least earned a draw including myself, in his own gym and dropped and sent current welter champ Ugas to the hospital during those sessions.

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'There are reports of the light-welterweight seriously troubling former world champion Shawn Porter in sparring'


''I really caught a glimpse of what was to come when Josh was out with me in Las Vegas ahead of my fight with Leo Santa Cruz in 2017. Josh was sparring former world welterweight champion Shawn Porter, ahead of only his eighth fight, and I remember thinking, 'This guy is unreal' because he bossed the spar.''

''When Josh Taylor used to spar the gym came to a standstill.. unbelievable stuff! I remember seeing him as a pretty green novice professional sparring Shawn Porter in Shawn Porter's gym and punching his head in''

--Carl ''The Jackal'' Frampton

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