Including this weekends fight, Josh Taylor’s last 7 opponents have had a combined record of 162-1!

You can count on one hand and still have a finger or two left the amount of fighters in the sport who have taken the kind of risks and had/have achieved what JT has in just 18 fights.

The only current ones I can think of are Loma, Usyk and Inoue.

Unified a division, beaten five world champions and is P4P#5 after just 18 fights.

How many others can you name have achieved something like that in 18 fights?

He already beat Terry's second best win Postol in just his 13th fight when he way less experienced than Terry

Going into that fight he

Had only fought one world class opponent before (a past prime Vazquez)
Had taken part in zero world title fights
Had never been past 9 rounds before

Whereas, when Crawford fought Postol

He was 28-0
Had fought 6 or 7 world class opponents
It was his 7th world title fight
Had been into the 10th or further 5 times including the full 12 twice

When JCR fought Postol
He was 25-0 when
Had fought 3 or 4 world class opponents
It was his 5th world title fight
Had been 10 round or more four times including going the full 12 three times


And Taylor already bashed up Terry's best win Porter (26-1-1 at the time) in the gym when he was a 7-0 rank novice despite being a 140 pounder and never having fought anyone above domestic level.

And he also bashed up Ugas who beat Terry in the amateurs during those same sessions too, not only dropping him but sending him to the hosiptal

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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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I'm not necessarily trying to argue that Taylor is better than Terry or has a better resume here but the fact is he unified and entire division, has beaten 5 world champions and became P4P#5, and beat what was up until recently Terry's best win when he was 12-0 within 18 fights, whereas, Terry didn't even win a single world title until his 23rd fight.


Taylor might not be a Loma in terms of genius, other worldly technical wizardry, level of competition, risks taken, number of punchers fought, number of world champions fought in so few fights (way more than almost most all his peers have in way more fights), but no one is or has comes remotely close to doing so. However, he has an excellent resume for someone of so few fights and has already beaten more world champions in just 18 fights than numerous current celebrated champions and favourites have in 30-45 fights.

 

Number of world champions fought

Clenelo roughly about 18 in 60 fights IIRC

Loma 11 in 18 fights (wowzers! That's absolutely insane!)

Crawford 9 in 38 fights

Think Inoue is about 8 or maybe even 9 in 22 fights

Twink 7 in 26 fights - don't be fooled this is pure smoke and mirrors and most of them were regular WBA champs, shot to bits, or champs down at 118, 122 or 126. By far the most smoke & mirrors out of everyone

Usyk 6 in 19 fights

Spence 6 in 27 fights

GGG 6 in 43 fights

Taylor 5 in 18 fights

Briedis 5 in 29 fights

AJ 5 in 26 fights

Jermello 4 in 36 fights

Beterbiev 3 in 17 fights

Castano 3 in 19 fights

Kambosos 3 in 20 fights

Haney 3 in 27 fights

Ugas 3 in 31 fights

Jermallo 3 in 32 fights

Fury 3 in 32 fights

Bronze Dosspot 3 in 45 fights

Joe Smith Jr 3 in 31 fights

Valdez 3 in 30 fights

Bivol 2 in 17 fights

Murata 2 in 18 fights

Mak-a-boo 2 in 31 fights

Shakur 1 in 17 fights

Okolie 1 in 17 fights

Goulamirian 0 in 26 fights

Boo Boo 0 in 31 fights

I don't follow the leprechaun divisions so I ain't diving down there

Nonito must've fought a lot. At least 13 in 48 fights but likely even more than that

FTR, Loma wins this via a country mile and it's way more impressive when you factor in how, in complete contrast to many of the aforementioned, the huge physical advantages he's routinely giving away in terms of weight and reach.

How rarely he's fought smaller world champions, ones who were world champions below 126.

How often he's fought bigger/way bigger ones in comparison.

How many punchers he's fought in comparison, punchers who are KO artists and huge punchers who are way bigger than him and are the biggest punchers and KO artists in his third division against fighters their own size.

No judges in his pocket, quite the opposite in fact.

Never having been given the rub of the green by the judges once.

Zero home officials

No artificially enhancing himself with PEDs like so many of these multiple weight champs have

And fighting on the road

 

Super post Serge

 

Thanks mate