Taylor looked frustrated and rattled throughout the contest, although that's what Postol does to all his opponents. He legitimately won a close one, but he showed himself on many instances to be a dirty fighter, with constant and blatant use of the head, punching on the break, rabbit punches. He prefers flashy/arm punches over efficiency. In the seventh he needed to be saved by John Lewis or he was visiting the canvas. Whether Taylor makes it at the very top level remains a question mark in my view.
Im just rewatching it now, there is a bit of dirtyness but he is far from the only one out there and he is certainly far from being the dirtiest one out there either. Though he is a big free with the head. But saying that he does enough that if he were fighting in somebody elses back yard a fussy referee could make his life hard work. Does Taylor make it to the very top? There are a few better out there than Postal at 140 and the Pole gave him plenty of work and plenty to think about. Anybody better than Postal is guna be real tough for Taylor, i can see him having a nightmare with a slickster.
Great highly skilled bout. Great show of dominance for a guy with 12 fights. It doesn't get much better than that.
Taylor used/lead with his head and connected 4 times leading up to the knockdown in the 10th. I'm a fan of Josh, but he looked like a Billygoat or Ram each butt worse than the next leading up to droping Postol.
So can I,Crawford would of knocked him out as he was lunging in,to be fair he did say he was nervous and didn’t Box very well. Needs to get his jab perfected if wants to go far
I've always disliked Taylor because of his tendency to rabbit punch. NOTHING is more dangerous. Really disgusting.
It was smart tactics, Taylor seems ultra competitive so when things get tough he may bend the rules abit. It’s nothing excessive like Flannagan but he definitely can be dirty.