After watching Taylor's performance last night

Calm down.

Taylor is a good fighter and he'll look also good at 147 albeit i don't see him beating the big boys there.

He had a rough camp with a knee injury, Covid and a chest infection. Probably should have waited another 2 or 3 months before returning to the ring.

He always had a very rough weight cut to make 140 pounds and with a chest infection, a knee injury and Covid he probably couldn't even train as much as he wanted to get the weight down early.

Most people also thought Catterall is a domestic bum with a padded record. No, he isn't. He's actually pretty good for a guy nobody really knew before.

People shouldn't be so harsh on Taylor for this one. His performance wasn't good. He should have lost the fight. But i give him a pass here regarding his performance.

After fighting so many elite fighters in his weight class and the rough circumstances for this one everyone should calm the **** down and respect what he did over the last few years.

He will give us a couple of more entertaining fights at 147 in the future.

 

Come on man. He roughed up Ramirez and Prograis on the inside. Saying he isn't imposing is kind of a stretch. Of course he's not a Heavyweight at Super Lightweight lol but those guys are mean and strong mofos and he did super well using his size and strength. Catterall had a career best performance and Taylor probably one of the worst. Judging a fighter by ONE performance is like saying Tyson Fury is **** because he looked like **** against Pianeta. Calm down. Taylor will beat some really good guys at 147 and people will say "Ohhhh wow Taylor is back he's soo freaking good!!!111"

 

When did he have Covid? I haven't seen that reported anywhere

 

I think in October. He talked about it in an interview a couple of days ago. Said he couldn't do any S&C and runs for the first date and the knee injury also made him hesitant to run to get the weight down as he didn't want the problems to come back for the second date of the fight. The way he looked...there was something off with him. The camp was just a big mess i assume. There is no reason to find an excuse but sometimes you don't need an excuse, just an explanation. He also said he never really stopped training despite having all that so i assume he probably had a grueling 5 month camp with all kind of problems and his body just didn't take it too well and reacted that way. He also looked like a zombie on the scales on Friday.

 

Did David Haye stomp on his toe on the way to the ring?

 

Did Covid stop him from slipping shots? His head movement was awful.

 

If he did have Covid and a chest infection then doing a hard weight cut on top of that wouldn't be ideal preparation.

I had Covid and a chest infection at the start of the year and I still haven't physically recovered, in fact I feel I am a shadow of what I was previously. The thought of having to do a heavy weight cut on top of that would make me physically sick.

Will see what he does at 147 as the way he looked on the scales would suggest we shouldn't see him at 140 again.

 

Shut up fool and stop quoting me. Put me on your ignore list pls. I don't want to have any conversation with you. You're annoying the hell out of me for weeks now.

 

Astute analysis.

 

The question is why do you think he was off? Is it weight or is it propensity to want to have a war to much? If it is the latter that does not bode well against technically savvy fighters. There were moments went Caterall was looking a clone of Floyd and Canelo skills wise.

 

I think there are multiple variables here:-

1. The weight cut combined with Covid & chest infection
2. All the pressure of the homecoming etc - he was way too emotional - as Serge said his ring walk was off
3. Possibly related to 1 and the knee injury is the ballooning in weight and lack of training
4. Last - and by no means least - Catterall brough his A-game and was as slippery as an eel, and gave Josh fits early, which exacerbated his tension and smothering his own work

I'd also say I was none too impressed with Davdisons corner advice either

Josh will come again, and hopefully will take this as a bullet dodged and really buckle down - maybe, just maybe, he let the whole undisputed thing blow too much smoke up his own arse as well