Taylor was always massively overrated

The amount of fights part isn't really a big deal to me

It just shows that Spence turned pro earlier

Spence and Taylor are around the same age

 

Mikey ranks higher, Spence ranked higher

 

I very much enjoyed the salty tears of those British nuthuggers when Spence invaded the UK and spanked Brook. I don't consider Spence overrated, to be honest. He ran into an absolute buzz saw that night against Bud. No shame in that.

I think Mikey achieved more, but that has no bearing on whether he was overrated. Very good fighter, but not a generational talent.

 

That in itself is an interesting thing to consider - how much did the pasting from GGG and drop back to 147 take out of Brook? i.e. a good win for Spence, but maybe not as good as Brook was when he fought Porter?

All goes to show that pretty much everything on a resume has context...

 

I've heard a few people hype up Crawford's win over Burns but realistically let's be honest Burns was an overachiever I never considered him a top guy.

Burns/Bertran was indeed a total gift decision no one thought Burns won that fight and he got his jaw broken in the process.

 

Garcia is a couple levels above Taylor. Just watching them you can see the difference in technique and execution. If you know what you’re looking at, that is. If you don’t, then any narrative will do.

 

Taylor was a very good fighter at his best, but the WBSS tournaments produced a fair bit of unwarranted hype. We saw what happened when Josh Taylor and Callum Smith stepped up to elite opposition afterward. That goes for others, too, like Prograis.

Still, you have to give the man credit for what he did accomplish, which wasn't easy. He's not a Lynch or Buchanan, but he's still a credit to Scotland.

 

Bigger too, Porter was a proven welter despite losing to a big welter in Spence.

 

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I've also thought Loma would have beaten Mikey, at least at 130lbs (where Loma was absolutely the complete package--fast, hard-hitting, and highly skilled).

Nobody brings it quite like you, my man.

 

Josh Taylor truned pro late. Youre basiclally giving him more credit for being an amateur for longer.

 

I agree with you that Lomachenko wouldve won but people said this same kind of over the top talk about Lomachenko vs Lopez before they fought